General Relativity

Education facts

Code: FK8025

The course studies: • gravitation expressed and explained as spacetime curvature • the description of spaces and spacetimes by means of tensors (metric, covariant derivative, the Riemann tensor) • Einstein's field equations • implications of general relativity: black holes, gravitational waves, cosmology • experimental tests of general relativity

Entry requirements

Admission to the course requires knowledge equivalent to passed courses (excluding introductory courses) of 45 credits in mathematics and 67.5 credits in physics, where the courses, where the courses Electromagnetism and Waves, 7.5 credits, (FK5019) and Analytical Mechanics, 7.5 credits (FK7049) should be included. Additionally, admission to the course requires knowledge equivalent upper secondary school English B/English 6.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• General Relativity

  Stockholm University

  Start date: 19 January 2026

  End date: 22 March 2026

  Pace of study: 50 %