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This is website is the Home Page of a graduate relativity course taught in MIT in 2020. The course web site includes the syllabus, reading, and assignment problem sets. The main topics treated in this course are: Tensors, the Principle of Equivalence, Differential Geometry, Gravitational Radiation, Cosmology, and applications of General Relativity on Cosmology like Black Holes.
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![]() <a href="https://www.compadre.org/relativity/items/detail.cfm?ID=5076">Hughes, Scott. MIT Open Courseware: 8.962 General Relativity. March 22, 2020.</a>
![]() S. Hughes, (2020), WWW Document, (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-962-general-relativity-spring-2020/).
![]() S. Hughes, MIT Open Courseware: 8.962 General Relativity (2020), <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-962-general-relativity-spring-2020/>.
![]() Hughes, S. (2020, March 22). MIT Open Courseware: 8.962 General Relativity. Retrieved March 21, 2025, from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-962-general-relativity-spring-2020/
![]() Hughes, Scott. MIT Open Courseware: 8.962 General Relativity. March 22, 2020. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-962-general-relativity-spring-2020/ (accessed 21 March 2025).
![]() Hughes, Scott. MIT Open Courseware: 8.962 General Relativity. 2020. 22 Mar. 2020. 21 Mar. 2025 <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-962-general-relativity-spring-2020/>.
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Author = "Scott Hughes",
Title = {MIT Open Courseware: 8.962 General Relativity},
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Number = {21 March 2025},
Month = {March 22, 2020},
Year = {2020}
}
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