AM 372Introduction to General Relativity
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1988–89
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1977–78 to 1988–89 (before that, 1976–77 used the number for Differential Geometry); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Flat space-time and Lorentz transformations, relativistic mechanics, Maxwell's equations; curved space-time and the Einstein field equations, the Schwarzschild solution and some experimental tests of general relativity, the weak field limit; introduction to black holes and cosmology.
As printed in the 1977–78 to 1988–89 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: AM 362/PMATH 365 or consent of instructor
Antireq: AM 364
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1976–77 to 1988–89, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1977–78 to 1988–89 10 calendars
Flat space-time and Lorentz transformations, relativistic mechanics, Maxwell's equations; curved space-time and the Einstein field equations, the Schwarzschild solution and some experimental tests of general relativity, the weak field limit; introduction to black holes and cosmology.
Prereq: AM 362/PMATH 365 or consent of instructor
Antireq: AM 364
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1976–77 1 calendar
Another title: Differential Geometry, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Intermediate level course on Riemannian spaces (continuation of AM, 362). Conformal spaces, spaces with corresponding geodesics, theory of subspaces. Prerequisites: M 230, AM 362 or consent of instructor. 2 hours lectures, | hour tutorial. Winter term