PHY483/1483F

Background

So... why take this course?

This course provides an introduction to general relativity, including a review of special relativity and some required mathematical topics. There are no formal prerequisites, but it will be necessary to be familiar withi special relativity (e.g. know how to use Lorentz transformations), and to be fully able with multivariable calculus, calculus of variations, and partial differential equations. A grounding in Lagrangian mechanics will also be needed.

Some of the students in this course will be physicists, some will be astronomers, and some will be in engineering. Some of the students will be undergraduates [taking PHY483F], and some will be graduate students [taking PHY1483F].

This course will not be "easy", but it will be rewarding. You will see how the power of the mathematics (tensor calculus, Einstein's General Relativity) will help us unlock the really cool physics of gravitation!

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