Difference between revisions of "Introduction to General Relativity"

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* Linearized gravity.
 
* Linearized gravity.
 
* Gravitational radiation.
 
* Gravitational radiation.
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* Stress-energy-momentum tensor.
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** scalar field.
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** electromagnetic field.
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** perfect fluid.
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** GRMHD.
 
* etc...
 
* etc...

Revision as of 10:56, 27 February 2012

  • Prerelativity physics and notion of space and time.
  • Spacetime Metric and geometry.
  • Manifolds, vectors, tensors.
  • Derivative operators.
  • Curvature.
  • Geodesics.
  • Einstein's equation.
  • Schwarzschild solution (at least in two different coordinates).
  • Linearized gravity.
  • Gravitational radiation.
  • Stress-energy-momentum tensor.
    • scalar field.
    • electromagnetic field.
    • perfect fluid.
    • GRMHD.
  • etc...