https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=3ERX0&collegejaar=2025&taal=enGeometry of curved spacetime. General relativity and gravitation. Schwarzschild spacetime. Black holes. Gravitational waves. Relativistic cosmology.
- Being able to do calculus with four-vectors and tensors in a four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian space.
- Being able to do absolute and covariant differentiations.
- Being able to evaluate the metric properties of a non-Euclidean space, which is defined by a given metric tensor, by calculating the affine connections and the curvature tensors.
- Being able to determine the geodesics of such a space for mass and light particles.
- Being able to manipulate with the Schwarzschild metric and from this metric to evaluate time dilatations and general particle trajectories.
- Being able to assess the concept of a black hole.
- Starting from this being able to calculate general particle trajectories.
Written examination