(6cp) Group C
First Semester
3 lectures and 1 tutorial per week
Prerequisites: either one of MATH2305, MATH2405, ENGN2212, MATH2320. Incompatible with MATH3050.
Syllabus: The theories of special and general relativity are presented with applications to black holes and cosmology. Topics to be covered include the following. Metrics and Riemannian tensors. The calculus of variations and Lagrangians. Spaces and space-times of special and general relativity. Photon and particle orbits. Model universes. The Schwarzschild metric and black holes. Gravitational lensing.