Gravitation 1
The course consists of 27 lectures (45 minutes each).
Instructor: M. Vasilic
1. The principle of equivalence
2. Curvilinear coordinates
3. Spacelike and timelike intervals
4. Covariant differentiation
5. Connection and metric
6. Motion of particles in the gravitational field
7. Constant gravitational field
8. Equations of electrodynamics in the gravitational field
9. Definition of the curvature tensor
10. Properties of the curvature tensor
11. The gravitational action
12. Energy-momentum tensor
13. Einstein's equations
14. The energy-momentum pseudotensor of the gravitational field
15. Sinhronized reference frame
16. Tetrad form of Einstein's equations
17. Newton's law
18. Spherically symmetric gravitational field
19. Motion in spherically symmetric gravitational field
21. Spherically symmetric gravitational collapse
22. Spherically symmetric collapse of the ball of dust
22. Weak gravitational waves
23. Killing vectors
24. Homogeneous and isotropic space
25. Closed model of the universe
26. Open model of the universe
27. Gravitational redshift
Requirements include:
1 seminar
Literature:
L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshits, Teoriya polya (Moskva, 1973)
S. Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology
R. Wald, General Relativity (Chicago, 1984)
Lightman, Press, Price and Teukolsky, Problem book ...
This course is followed by Gravitation 2