PHYS4390 - General Relativity
Schedule of assignments.
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Assignment 1: Special relativity
and
geometry.
Assignment 2: Differential
geometry, tensor algebra and
calculus.
Assignment 3: Metrics for
different geometries, metric connection, parallel transport, Riemann
tensor.
Assignment 4: Rotating reference frames,
Schwarzschild geometry via alternative method, calculating the Ricci curvature scalar.
Assignment 5: Null coordinates,
orbits in Schwarzschild space, energy momentum tensor
