PHYSICS 127 · PHYS 127General Relativity
Physics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Recommended: courses 115A, 115B, 115C. Introduction to general relativity. Principle of equivalence and curved spacetime, local inertial frames, vectors and three-dimensional surfaces in curved spacetime. Schwarzchild metric, perihelion precession, bending of light by sun, and gravitational redshift. Star-system applications, black holes, gravitational waves. Introduction to cosmology, including Robertson/Walker metric and expanding universe solution to Friedman equations. Dark energy and cosmological constant.
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Requisites: courses 32, 105B, 110A, 110B.
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PHYSICS 127
- PHYSICS 32Mathematical Methods
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
- PHYSICS 105BAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanics
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
- PHYSICS 110AElectricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 110BElectricity and Magnetism
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