Difference between revisions of "Introduction to General Relativity"

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* Gravitational radiation.
 
* Gravitational radiation.
 
* Stress-energy-momentum tensor.
 
* Stress-energy-momentum tensor.
** scalar field.
 
** electromagnetic field.
 
** perfect fluid.
 
** GRMHD.
 
 
* etc...
 
* etc...
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Please see the notes at [https://svn.einsteintoolkit.org/documents/Workshop_Spring_2012/genrel/ the svn site], specifically the genrel.pdf file.

Latest revision as of 20:35, 3 April 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.
  • etc...

Please see the notes at the svn site, specifically the genrel.pdf file.