Courses of Study 2023-2024 
    
    May 31, 2025  
Courses of Study 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PHYS 6553 - [General Relativity I]

(crosslisted) ASTRO 6509  
     
Fall. Not offered: 2023-2024. Next offered: 2024-2025. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: knowledge of special relativity and methods of dynamics at level of Classical Mechanics by Goldstein. Undergraduate students must take class for letter grade. Offered in even-numbered years only.

T. Hartman.

A comprehensive introduction to Einstein’s theory of relativistic gravity. This course focuses on the formal structure of the theory.



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