General relativity
Dr. Gyula Bene
Department for Theoretical Physics, Loránd Eötvös University
Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest
Content
1. week
Preliminaries: special relativity. Basic concepts: curvilinear coordinates, metric, distances and times.
2. week
Covariant derivatives. Parallel displacement, precession of a free spherically symmetric top.
3. week
The laws of physics in curved spacetime
4. week
The Riemannian (curvature tensor)
5. week
Action integral of gravity
6. week
Energy-momentum tensor
7. week
Einstein's equation
8. week
Conservation laws
9. week
Spherically symmetric gravitational field
10. week
Weak gravitational fields: static fields, stationary fields, gravitational waves.
11. week
Experimental evidence of general relativity I.
12. week
Experimental evidence of general relativity II.
13. week
Relativistic cosmology
bene@arpad.elte.hu