DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Master's Degree in Physics
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year - ASTROPHYSICS Curriculum and THEORETICAL PHYSICS Curriculum
Master's Degree in Physics
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year - ASTROPHYSICS Curriculum and THEORETICAL PHYSICS Curriculum
GENERAL RELATIVITY
FIS/05 - 6 CFU - 2° Semester
Teaching Staff
PAOLO CASTORINALearning Objectives
A first course in General relativity with a brief introduction to differential geometry and a detailed discussion of the cosmological model
Detailed Course Content
Equilvalence principle, gravitational red shift, special relativity (recall)
Introduction to differential geometry
Einstein Equations, initial conditions, gauge invariance and harmonic gauge, gravitationale waves, black holes
Standar cosmological model: FLRW netric, cosmological parameters, cosmological evolution: photons,baryons,neutrinos, nucleosynthesismdark enery, dark matter
Textbook Information
Carroll - Lecture notes on GR
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