Individual course details | ||||||||||
Study programme | General physics | |||||||||
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Nature and level of studies | Undergraduate Studies | |||||||||
Name of the course | Introduction to theory of gravity | |||||||||
Professor (lectures) | dr Duško Latas | |||||||||
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ECTS | 3 | Status (required/elective) | elective | |||||||
Access requirements | Introduction to theoretical mechanics | |||||||||
Aims of the course | In this course elementary concepts of general relativity are introduced. | |||||||||
Learning outcomes | After completion of the course, the student is familiar with the basic notions of the general relativity, understand the basic physical concepts and their experimental implications. | |||||||||
Contents of the course | ||||||||||
Lectures | 1.
Flat spacetime, Minkowski diagrams. 2. Dynamics in Special Relativity. 3.
Newton Law of Gravitation. The Equivalence Principle. 4. Apparent Forces,
Motion in a Rotating, Relativistic Reference Frame. 5. Metric. Curvature. Einstein Equations. 6. Curved Space-time. Geodesic Equations. 7. A Freely Falling Inertial Frame, Gravitational Red Shift. 8. Experimental Test of Gravitational Red Shift. 9. Gravitational Field of a Spherical Mass. The Schwarzschild Metric. 10. Trajectories in the Schwarzschild Spacetime. 11. Bending of Light in a Gravitational Field. 12. The Experimental Evidence for General Relativity. 13. Blach Holes. 14. Cosmology. |
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Examples/ practical classes | ||||||||||
Recommended books | ||||||||||
1 | John B. Kogut, Introduction to Relativity: For Physicists and Astronomers, Academic Press, 2001 | |||||||||
2 | Bernard Schutz, A First Course in General Relativity, Cambridge University Press, 2009 | |||||||||
3 | James B. Hartle, Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity, Addison-Wesley, 2003 | |||||||||
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Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
2 | 0 | |||||||||
Teaching and learning methods | Lecturing (theoretical elaboration, examples) | |||||||||
Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
coursework | 10 | written examination | ||||||||
practicals | oral examination | 50 | ||||||||
papers | ||||||||||
presentations | 40 | |||||||||