Physics. Basic General Relativity

Benjamin McKay, U of Utah

Table of contents :
1. Introduction……Page 1
4. The action of a relativistic particle……Page 2
6. Wave equations……Page 5
7. General relativity……Page 8
9. Examples of fields and field equations……Page 10
10. Parallel transport and covariant derivatives……Page 12
11. Conservation of the energy-momentum tensor……Page 17
12. Curvature……Page 20
13. The field equations of Einstein……Page 22
References……Page 24