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Introdution to Black Hole Physics

Lecturer: Níckolas de Aguiar Alves, MSc (UFABC)

Schedule:

Workload: 10h

Topics:

Pre-requisites: Familiarity with high-school level mathematics, especially polynomial algebra. Previous knowledge about Newtonian gravity and electrostatics is also welcome. Previous experience with integral or diferential calculus is not needed.

Bibliography:

These are the main references for the course, although their approach is fairly more technical than the actual course will be. A complete list of references is available in the lecture notes, which serves as the main reference.

1. Robert M. Wald. General Relativity. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984.
2. Stephen W. Hawking e George F. R. Ellis. The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.