Gravitation and Cosmology

PHYSICS 557

Special relativity, equivalence principle, and fundamental experiments. Mathematics of curved spacetime. General structure of Einstein's equations. Observational tests. Applications of general relativity, relativistic stellar structure, gravitational collapse and black holes.
Course Attributes:

Section 01

Gravitation and Cosmology
INSTRUCTOR: Ferrer
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Instructors

Francesc Ferrer

Francesc Ferrer

​Associate Professor of Physics

ferrer@wustl.edu