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B027819 - INTRODUCTION TO RELATIVITY THEORY
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Course program
Academic Year 2019-20
Course year
Second year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
FIS/02 - THEORETICAL PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND METHODS
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
12/09/2019 ⇒ 13/12/2019
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B018841 - INTRODUZIONE ALLA TEORIA DELLA RELATIVITA'
Second Cycle Degree in PHYSICAL AND ASTROPHYSICAL SCIENCES
B018841 - INTRODUZIONE ALLA TEORIA DELLA RELATIVITA'
Second Cycle Degree in PHYSICAL AND ASTROPHYSICAL SCIENCES
Teaching Language
Italian or English
Course Content
Special and general relativity
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Landau – Classical field theory
Weinberg – Gravitation and cosmology
Carroll - Spacetime and geometry
Weinberg – Gravitation and cosmology
Carroll - Spacetime and geometry
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired:
basic knowledge of special and general relativity
Competence acquired:
differential geometry
Skills acquired
handling the relativistic framework
basic knowledge of special and general relativity
Competence acquired:
differential geometry
Skills acquired
handling the relativistic framework
Prerequisites
Calculus and vector calculus. Classical mechanics and electrodynamics. Basics of special relativity.
Teaching Methods
6 CFU
Class hours: 48
Class hours: 48
Further information
Office hours
To be agreed with the teacher
Website
http://theory.fi.infn.it/becattini/
To be agreed with the teacher
Website
http://theory.fi.infn.it/becattini/
Type of Assessment
Oral test
Course program
Foundations of special relativity. Four-vectors and tensors. Relativistic kinematics and dynamics. Covariant formulation of electromagnetism. Stress-energy tensor of matter and electromagnetic field. Relativistic fluids and equation of motions.
Introduction to general relativity. Equivalence principle. Redshift and Pound-Rebka experiment. Need of curved spacetime. Curved spacetimes: metric tensor, geodesics, covariant derivative, Bianchi identity. Length and time measurement. Geodesics and test particles. Einstein field equations. Hilbert gravitational action. Spherically symmetric solutions: Schwarzschild metric. Orbits in Schwarzschild metric. Light beams deflection.
Introduction to general relativity. Equivalence principle. Redshift and Pound-Rebka experiment. Need of curved spacetime. Curved spacetimes: metric tensor, geodesics, covariant derivative, Bianchi identity. Length and time measurement. Geodesics and test particles. Einstein field equations. Hilbert gravitational action. Spherically symmetric solutions: Schwarzschild metric. Orbits in Schwarzschild metric. Light beams deflection.