Fisica | GENERAL RELATIVITY

cod. 0522600020

GENERAL RELATIVITY

	0522600020
	DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA "E.R. CAIANIELLO"

	PHYSICS
	2014/2015

PERCORSO COMUNE

	YEAR OF COURSE 1
	YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2014
	PRIMO SEMESTRE

TEACHING UNITS

	SSD	CFU	HOURS	ACTIVITY	TYPE OF ACTIVITY
	FIS/02	6	48	LESSONS	SUPPLEMENTARY COMPULSORY SUBJECTS

	Objectives
	The course aims to introduce students to the foundations of General Relativity and Cosmology, emphasizing both geometric aspects and applications.

	Prerequisites
	Classical Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Special Relativity, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Dynamics, Quantum Mechanics.

	Contents
	The Galileo-Einstein Equivalence Principle, The General Covariance Principle, The geodesic equations, the Einstein field equations, The Schwarzschild solution, the precession of Mercury perihelion, the deflection of light in a gravitational field, Black Holes, gravitational waves, Relativistic Cosmology.

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	Texts
	G. VILASI, Hamiltonian Dynamics, World Scientific (2001) L.LANDAU – E.LIFCHITZ, Teoria dei Campi, Editori Riuniti I. CIUFOLINI and J. A. WHEELER, Gravitation and Inertia, Princeton Series in Physics, (1995) S. WEINBERG, Gravitation and Cosmology, J. Wiley (1972) R. WALD, General Relativity, Chicago University Press, (1984) S. Hawking and G. Ellis, The large scale structure of Space-time, Cambridge University Press (1980) R. d'Inverno, Una introduzione alla Relatività di einstein, Feltrinelli (2010) C. Misner, K. Thorne and J.A.Wheeler, Gravitation, H.Freeman (1973) M. Gasperini, Relatività Generale e Teoria della Gravitazione, (Springer 2010)

G. VILASI, Hamiltonian Dynamics, World Scientific (2001)
L.LANDAU – E.LIFCHITZ, Teoria dei Campi, Editori Riuniti
I. CIUFOLINI and J. A. WHEELER, Gravitation and Inertia, Princeton Series in Physics, (1995)
S. WEINBERG, Gravitation and Cosmology, J. Wiley (1972)
R. WALD, General Relativity, Chicago University Press, (1984)
S. Hawking and G. Ellis, The large scale structure of Space-time, Cambridge University Press (1980)
R. d'Inverno, Una introduzione alla Relatività di einstein, Feltrinelli (2010)
C. Misner, K. Thorne and J.A.Wheeler, Gravitation, H.Freeman (1973)
M. Gasperini, Relatività Generale e Teoria della Gravitazione, (Springer 2010)