General Relativity

Matthias Bartelmann
Institut für Theoretische Physik
Universität Heidelberg

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Contents

Instead of a preface
Introduction
Differential Geometry I
Differential Geometry II
Physical Laws in External Gravitational Fields
Differential Geometry III
Einstein's Field Equations
Weak Gravitational Fields
The Schwarzschild Solution
Physics in the Schwarzschild Spacetime
Schwarzschild Black Holes
Charged, Rotating Black Holes
Homogeneous, Isotropic Cosmology
Two Examples of Relativistic Astrophysics
Instead of a postface
Electrodynamics
Summary of Differential Geometry
Penrose-Carter diagrams