PHYS 387 - Gravity

2020-2021 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will cover Newtonian gravity, special and general relativity, and cosmology. Some of the topics include Newton’s law of gravitation, Keplerian orbits, special relativity with spacetime diagrams and metrics, generalization to accelerated frames, the Equivalence Principle, curvature of spacetime, classical tests of GR, stationary and spinning black holes, large scale structure of the universe, big bang theory, and the cosmological model.

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 311 or permission of the department.
Offered: Spring Semester - Odd Years