James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2001

MA5621:03

General Relativity

Townsville

Prerequisites: MA2100

First or 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.