FU:ERFYB0006 Introd. to General Relativity

ERFYB0006 Introduction to General Relativity

Institute of physics in Opava
summer 2025

Extent and Intensity: 3/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s): Roman Konoplya, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Dr. Jorge Iván Ovalle Araya, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Dr. Jorge Iván Ovalle Araya, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by: Roman Konoplya, Ph.D.
Institute of physics in Opava
Prerequisites (in Czech): (FAKULTA(FU)&&SOUHLAS)
Course Enrolment Limitations: The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives: 1) Gravitational field in relativistic and non-relativistic mechanics, curvilinear coordinates, distances and time intervals, metric, tensors 2) Covariant differentiation, Christoffel symbols 3) Geodesic equations, motion of a particle in a spherically symmetric field 4) Test fields in a curved spacetime 5) The curvature tensor 6) The Einstein equations 7) Schwarzschild solution, physics of black holes 8) Three classical tests of General Relativity. 9) Quasinormal modes of black holes 10) Introduction in Cosmology, Friedmann equations
Language of instruction: English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech): The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Erasmus

The course is also listed under the following terms summer 2024.