Lecture: Differential Geometry and Relativity: General Relativity--The Geometry of Curved Spacetime

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Robert Gardner, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, East Tennessee State University

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125 pages, course notes, year 2000

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The Michelson Morley Experiment; The Postulates of Relativity;The Field Equations;Lorentz Geometry;Spacetime Diagrams;The Principle of Equivalence;Gravity as Spacetime Curvature;The Consequences of Einstein's Theory;The Schwarzschild Solution;Orbits in General Relativity. PACS classification: 02.40.-k http://www.etsu.edu/math/gardner/5310/notes.htm http://www.etsu.edu/math/gardner/5310/5310pdf/dg3-7.pdf

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Physics Classification:	02.40.-k (Geometry, differential geometry, and topology )
	04.20.-q (Classical general relativity )
	02. (Mathematical methods in physics)