RELATIVITY, GRAVITATION AND COSMOLOGY

By JENNIFER DAVIS

1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 2 SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND THE FLAT SPACETIME 3 THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE 4 METRIC DESCRIPTION OF A CURVED SPACE 5 GR AS A GEOMETRIC THEORY OF GRAVITY - I 6 SPACETIME OUTSIDE A SPHERICAL STAR 7 THE HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC UNIVERSE 8 THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE AND THERMAL RELICS 9 INFLATION AND THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE 10 TENSORS IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY 11 TENSORS IN GENERAL RELATIVITY 12 GR AS A GEOMETRIC THEORY OF GRAVITY - II 13 LINEARIZED THEORY AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVES