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General relativity

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Gravitational Lensing: Basics and Applications

Explores the basics of gravitational lensing, clarifying common misconceptions and providing explicit observational tests.

General Relativity: Predictions and Observations

Explores general relativity, focusing on predictions and observations, including gravitational lensing, black holes, and cosmology.

Special and General Relativity

Introduces special and general relativity, Einstein equations, and gravitational dynamics.

Curved Space-Time

Discusses curved space-time, arguments against scalar gravity, and relativistic effects of motion.

Gravitational Lenses

Covers gravitational lenses, deflection angle, lens equation, and their application to galaxies and the universe.

General Relativity: Energy-Momentum Tensor

Covers the Schwarzschild solution, the cosmological constant, and General Relativity as an Effective Field Theory.

Gravity and Geometry: Exploring Einstein's Equations

Explores general relativity, Einstein's field equations, AdS instability, and the collapse of perturbations into black holes.

Gravitational Waves: Observations and Implications

Explores the detection of gravitational waves, focusing on the first observation of a binary black hole merger and its implications for astrophysics.

Einstein's Principles of Relativity

Explores Einstein's modification of Galileo's relativity principles and the analysis of light signals and observer transformations.

Testing General Relativity with Cosmology

Explores Testing General Relativity with Cosmology, covering topics like the curvature tensor, teleparallelism, and black holes in f(Q).

Relativity and Cosmology: Introduction

Introduces the concepts of relativity and cosmology, covering the Big Bang Theory, general relativity, and statistical physics.

Structural Mechanics: Beam Bending and Boundary Conditions

Explores the moment-curvature relation for beams, emphasizing stress distribution and typical boundary conditions.

Introduction to Structural Mechanics

Explores beam bending, stiffness, and curvature in mechanical systems using OCR-extracted slides from EPFL's Spring 2021 session.

Applications of Physics: Kinematics and Dynamics

Emphasizes applying physics concepts to solve problems and covers gravitational fields and space-time curvature.

Gravitational Lensing: Exploring Micro-Lensing Phenomenon

Explores gravitational micro-lensing effects, strong and weak lensing, multiple images, and critical lines.

Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Explores the impact of gravitational waves on central questions in astronomy, from LIGO's first detection to future prospects.

Magnetic Fields and Lorentz Force

Explores magnetic fields, Lorentz force, charged particles movement, and wire behavior.

Relativity and Cosmology II

Explores the expanding Universe, red shift, and General Relativity implications.

Introduction to Astrophysics: Gravitational Lensing

Covers gravitational lensing in astrophysics, including deflection angle, Einstein radius, lens solution, and its application to galaxies and the universe.

Holography in Classical Gravity

Explores hints of holography in classical black hole thermodynamics.