8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2006
Author(s)
Bertschinger, Edmund
Hughes, Scott
Alternative Title
General Relativity
Date Issued
June 2006
Abstract
8.962 is MIT's graduate course in general relativity, which covers the basic principles of Einstein's general theory of relativity, differential geometry, experimental tests of general relativity, black holes, and cosmology.
Subjects
Spacetime
tensors
special relativity
differential geometry
Einstein's equation
gravitation
cosmological constant
Hilbert action
general relativity
gravitational waves
gravitational lensing
cosmology
Schwarzschild solution
black holes
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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