8.962 General Relativity (Spring 2020, MIT OCW) | Physics

8.962 General Relativity

8.962 General Relativity (Spring 2020, MIT OCW). Instructor: Prof. Scott Hughes. 8.962 is MIT's graduate course in general relativity, which covers the basic principles of Einstein's general theory of relativity, differential geometry, experimental tests of general relativity, black holes, and cosmology. (from ocw.mit.edu)

Introduction

Lecture 01 - Introduction and the Geometric Viewpoint on Physics

Lecture 02 - Introduction to Tensors

Lecture 03 - Tensors (cont.)

Lecture 04 - Volumes and Volume Elements; Conservation Laws

Lecture 05 - The Stress Energy Tensor and the Christoffel Symbol

Lecture 06 - The Principle of Equivalence

Lecture 07 - The Principle of Equivalence (cont.); Parallel Transport

Lecture 08 - Lie Transport, Killing Vectors, Tensor Densities

Lecture 09 - Geodesics

Lecture 10 - Spacetime Curvature

Lecture 11 - More on Spacetime Curvature

Lecture 12 - The Einstein Field Equation

Lecture 13 - The Einstein Field Equation (Variant Derivation)

Lecture 14 - Linearized Gravity I: Principles and Static Limit

Lecture 15 - Linearized Gravity II: Dynamic Sources

Lecture 16 - Gravitational Radiation I

Lecture 17 - Gravitational Radiation II

Lecture 18 - Cosmology I

Lecture 19 - Cosmology II

Lecture 20 - Spherical Compact Sources I

Lecture 21 - Spherical Compact Sources II

Lecture 22 - Black Holes I

Lecture 23 - Black Holes II

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8.962 General Relativity (Spring 2020)
Instructor: Prof. Scott Hughes. Assignments: Problem Sets (No Solutions). This course covers the basic principles of Einstein's general theory of relativity, differential geometry, experimental tests of general relativity, black holes, and cosmology.