Relativity  

The principle of special relativity. Minkowski spaceime. Relaivisic kinemaics, velocity addiions, Lorentz transformaion, ime dilataion, Lorentz contracion. Astrophysical applications: superluminal moions, relaivisic beaming. Relaivisic dynamics. 4-vectors, mass increase. Principle of general relativity. Curved manifolds, curved spaceime, covariant and contravariant representaion. Einstein equaions. Robertson-Walker metrics, Schwarzschild and Kerr metrics. Astrophysical applicaions: perihelion moion, light delecion, dynamics around black holes.
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Relativity
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