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PHYS 000/3071 - General Relativity and Cosmology (3 cr.)


Prerequisites
MACT 2132  - PHYS 3023  

Description
Coordinate symmetries, the principle of equivalence and its implications, metric description of a curved spacetime, Geodesic equation and Einstein field equation, applications of spacetime outside a spherical star, Hubble’s law, dark matter, Robertson-walker metric, the expanding universe and thermal relics, inflation and the accelerated universe.


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