Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 32, 105B, 110A, 110B. Recommended: courses 115A, 115B, 115C. Introduction to general relativity. Principle of equivalence and curved spacetime, local inertial frames, vectors and three-dimensional surfaces in curved spacetime. Schwarzchild metric, perihelion precession, bending of light by sun, and gravitational redshift. Star-system applications, black holes, gravitational waves. Introduction to cosmology, including Robertson/Walker metric and expanding universe solution to Friedman equations. Dark energy and cosmological constant. P/NP or letter grading.

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Mar 5, 3 PM PST
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Graciela Gelmini
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