Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Master expertise.
• Have acquired knowledge and a thorough understanding of specialist areas of physics in connection with mathematics and/or advanced laboratory practices required for these sectors.
• Have reached a level of knowledge and skill giving them access to the third cycle of the study programme / doctoral studies (only for two-year Master courses).
• Provide clear and accurate information.
• Share their knowledge and findings clearly and back them up rationally to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Grow personally and professionally.
• Have developed the skills that will enable them to continue to acquire knowledge independently.
• Have a creative and rigorous scientific approach
• Apply their knowledge, understanding and ability to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments and in multidisciplinary contexts related to physical sciences.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Understand the modern formulation of general relativity based on the tools of differential geometry and the general properties of black holes.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Coordinate and non-coordinate bases of tangent space. Cartan's formulation of general relativity. The Reissner-Nordstrom solution of Einstein's equations describing a charged black hole. Kerr's solution of Einstein's equations describing a rotating black hole. General properties of black holes.

Prior Experience

Course of General relativity.