AM 464Topics in General Relativity
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1988–89
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1983–84 to 1988–89 (before that, 1981–82 to 1982–83 used the number for Introduction to General Relativity Curved space-time and the Einstein field equations; the Schwarzschild); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Basic ideas of relativistic cosmology (Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes, observational status of cosmological theories, black hole theory (the Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions, their event horizons and singularities, gravitational collapse, observable properties of black holes), and an introduction to gravitational waves. Other topics of current interest may be discussed.
As printed in the 1983–84 to 1988–89 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: AM 362 and 372, or consent of instructor
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1981–82 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.
1983–84 to 1988–89 5 calendars
Basic ideas of relativistic cosmology (Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes, observational status of cosmological theories, black hole theory (the Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions, their event horizons and singularities, gravitational collapse, observable properties of black holes), and an introduction to gravitational waves. Other topics of current interest may be discussed.
Prereq: AM 362 and 372, or consent of instructor
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1981–82 to 1982–83 2 calendars
Another title: Introduction to General Relativity Curved space-time and the Einstein field equations; the Schwarzschild, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
solution; experimental tests of general relativity; the weak field limit; introduction to black holes; construction of stellar models; introduction to cosmology; 3 + 1 decomposition of space-time and the Cauchy initial value problem; methods of solving the field equations.
Prereq: AM 364 and AM 362 and | consent of instructor.
Offered Fall · 2 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit