8.033 | Fall 2006 | Undergraduate

Relativity

Lecture Notes

lecture20_cosmo4.pdf

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This resource contains lecture slides on defining Einstein field equations, Einstein tensor, stress-energy tensor, curvature scalar, Ricci tensor, Christoffel symbols, Riemann curvature tensor, symmetry arguments by which 6 Schwarzschild metric tensor components vanish, symmetry arguments for why the non-zero components are functions of radius only, the differential equations for G00 and G11, and shell radius vs. bookkeepers radial coordinate.

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