AM 475Introduction to General Relativity
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1989–90 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Equivalence principle. Curved space-time and Einstein's gravitational field equations. The weak field limit. The Schwarzschild solution. Observational tests of General Relativity. Introduction to relativistic cosmology. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes and the big bang. Observational evidence. Gravitational collapse and black holes. Gravitational waves.
As printed in the 1989–90 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: AM 375, or consent of instructor
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1989–90 to 1994–95, 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.
1989–90 to 1994–95 6 calendars
Equivalence principle. Curved space-time and Einstein's gravitational field equations. The weak field limit. The Schwarzschild solution. Observational tests of General Relativity. Introduction to relativistic cosmology. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes and the big bang. Observational evidence. Gravitational collapse and black holes. Gravitational waves.
Prereq: AM 375, or consent of instructor
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit