James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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MA5621:03

General Relativity

Townsville

Prerequisites: MA2100 PH2000 PH3001

First and second semester.

Differential geometry, tensors, covariant derivative, Riemann tensor, geodesics, Lie derivative; equivalence principle, energy-momentum tensor, Einstein equations, Killing vectors; solutions of Einstein equations, black holes, relativistic cosmology, particle physics and the very early universe.


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