PHYS 649 Introduction to General Relativity
General Relatively is a theory of a class of physical phenomena encompassed by the term gravity. The purpose of this course is to acquaint graduate students with the concepts and the mathematical apparatus underlying the theory, at a level where they would be capable of carrying out calculations to solve problems ranging from very simple to moderately difficult. However, this is emphatically not a mathematical physics course, and thus its focus will be constantly maintained on the physical interpretation of the intervening equations and their solutions, as well on the phenomenology to be described by the theory.