PHYS675

Introduction to Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology

Prerequisite: PHYS606 and PHYS601. Review of special relativity, followed by a study of the equivalence principle, curved spacetimes, and Einstein's equations. Selected applications to the solar system, stellar structure, black holes, gravitational waves, and cosmology.

Fall 2025

Theodore Jacobson

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Past Semesters

Theodore Jacobson

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Theodore Jacobson

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Theodore Jacobson

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Bei Lok Hu

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Theodore Jacobson

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Jonathan McKinney

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Manuel Tiglio

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.48 between 192 students*

A-: 8.85%

A: 25.52%

A+: 18.23%

B-: 4.17%

B: 9.38%

B+: 8.85%

C-: 1.04%

C: 1.04%

C+: 0.52%

D: 1.04%

D+: 0.52%

W: 2.08%

other: 18.75%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.