# Introduction to General Relativity and Black Holes (2/5)

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Academic Training Lecture Regular Programme,2000-2001
- Speaker: Thibault Marie Alban Guillaume Damour
- Year: 2001
- Level: Graduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3024799)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Conceptual foundations of General Relativity (GR). Uniqueness of GR. Mathematical framework: tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry, connection, 'spin' connection, curvature, Cartan's form calculus. Hilbert-Einstein action, Einstein equations. Weak gravitational fields. Post Newtonian Approximation. Gravitanional Waves. Exact solutions. Killing vectors. Experimental tests. Black Holes: extensions of the Schwarzschild solution; Kerr-Newman holes; no-hair theorems; energtics of black holes; the membrane approach; quantum mechanics of black holes; Bekenstein entropy; Hawking temperature; black holes and string theory..

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## Lectures

1. [Introduction to General Relativity and Black Holes (2/5)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3024799/7a40d957a7f7), 1 h 10 min (CERN's player)