Academic Year 2021/2022
- Docente: Roberto Balbinot
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/02
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Physics (cod. 9245)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 9245)
Course contents
Special Relativity-Maxwell equations-retarded potential
Equivalence principle
Geodesics
Riemann tensor
Einstein equations
Schwarzschild solution
Classical tests
Gravitational waves
Readings/Bibliography
S. Weinberg : Gravitation and Cosmology, John Wiley & Sons, 1972
R. D'Inverno : Introducing Einstein Relativity, Oxford University Press, 1992
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Balbinot