Courses - Fall 2025
PHYS675
Introduction to Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: PHYS606 and PHYS601.
Review of special relativity, followed by a study of the equivalence principle, curved spacetimes, and Einstein's equations. Selected applications to the solar system, stellar structure, black holes, gravitational waves, and cosmology.
Prerequisite: Phys610 and Phys611, or advanced undergraduate electrodynamics and classical mechanics and permission of the instructor.
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