Duration
20h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
We present the mathematical concepts necessary for understanding general relativity.
- Tensorial analysis in flat spaces;
- Parallel transport on affine manifolds;
- Definition and properties of the Riemann-Christoffel tensor;
- Bianchi identities;
- Riemannian manifolds.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The learning outcome of the course will be the ability of students to understand the mathematical sense of the Einstein field equations (which will be developed in course SPAT0012-3).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Course SPAT0012-1
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
None.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face.
Recommended or required readings
- Lecture notes; - Bernard F. Schutz, « A first course in general relativity », second edition, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam in January.
Work placement(s)
None.
Organizational remarks
None.
Contacts
Yves De Rop
Département d'astrophysique, de géophysique et d'océanographie
Allée du 6 août, 17
Bâtiment B5a, bureau R/8
4000 - Liège
Y.DeRop@ulg.ac.be
Items online
Relativité générale (septembre 2018)
Syllabus for the course SPAT0012 (in french).