Review of special relativity, followed by a study of the equivalence principle, curved spacetimes, and Einstein's equations. Selected applications to the solar system, stellar structure, black holes, gravitational waves, and cosmology.
2024
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| Fall | Jacobson, Ted |  | 
2020
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| Fall | Hu, Bei-Lok |  | 
2019
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| Fall | Hu, Bei-Lok |  | |
2018
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| Fall | Hu, Bei-Lok |  | 
2017
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| Fall | Hu, Bei-Lok |  | 
2016
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| Fall | McKinney, Jonathan |  | |
2015
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| Fall | McKinney, Jonathan |  | |
2014
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| Fall | Jacobson, Ted |  | |
2013
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| Fall | McKinney, Jonathan |  | |