FC072 Gravity seminar

Faculty of Science
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavel Klepáč, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. RNDr. Jan Novotný, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Michal Lenc, Ph.D.
Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Jan Novotný, CSc.
Prerequisites
For all students and teachers interesting in the field given above.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This seminar informs the participants on present problems of relativity and gravity. Lecturers are the teachers, Ph.D.students and students and also the guests from our and foreign univesities. The principal aim of the seminar is allow the people actively working in the field of relativity and gravitation to present their preliminary results to the qualified and critical audience; inform the participants on the new trends in the research of relativity and gravitation
Syllabus
  • Dopplerův effect and relativistic cosmology
  • Conservation laws problem in gravitational theories
  • Encyklopedy of time
  • Exact solutions of Einstein equations
  • The other up to date subjects
Literature
  • MISNER, Charles W., Kip S. THORNE and John Archibald WHEELER. Gravitation. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1973, xxvi, 1279. ISBN 0-7167-0344-0. info
Assessment methods
Classical seminar of active students with teachers. Lectures are connected with discussion, no home exercises, credit for adequate participation
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008.
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