GENERAL RELATIVITY
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year - Curriculum ASTROPHYSICS and Curriculum THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Teaching Staff: Paolo CASTORINA
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/05 - Astronomy and astrophysics
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/05 - Astronomy and astrophysics
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning 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