Information Package / Course Catalogue
General Relativity
Course Code: FİZ405
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

To make the students understand the spacetime and gravitational interaction in the manner of geometry within the general theory of relativity.

Course Content

Curved spaces and the basic ideas of general theory of relativity, Static and stationary spacetimes, Geodesics, curvature tensor and vacuum field equations, The Schwarzschild metric, Black holes and Kruskal space, An exact plane gravitational wave, The full field equations, Linearized general relativity

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