Advanced techniques in General Relativity and Applications to Black Holes

Subject:

Physics (PHYS)

Catalog number:

784

Unit weight:

0.50

Meet type:

LEC

Grading basis:

NUM

Cross-listing(s):

AMATH-874

Requisites:

N/A

Description:

Review of elementary general relativity. Timelike and null geodesic congruences. Hypersurfaces and junction conditions. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of general relativity. Mass and angular momentum of a gravitating body. The laws of black-hole mechanics.

Topic titles:

N/A

Faculty:

Science (SCI)

Academic level:

GRD

Course ID:

010439