PHYS 5770 Spring 2008 Syllabus

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PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity) Spring 2008: Syllabus

Content

The intention in this course is to emphasize the applications. We will cover the mathematics that is required, but with a clear view that the purpose of the mathematics is to allow you to understand the applications.

The aim is to cover three major applications of general relativity:

Black holes – the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom, and Kerr-Newman metrics
Cosmology – the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric, and its perturbations
Gravitational waves – in flat space and cosmology

Grading

Grading will be weighted as follows:

Problem Sets	60%
Midterm	20%
Final	20%

Policies

Class and University Policies

General relativistic volume rendering of a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a disk and jet around a black hole Spring 2008 PHYS 5770 Homepage

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Updated 2008 Jan 22