GRAVITATION AND COSMOLOGY
Chapter 5: The Schwarzschild Solution

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TEXTBOOK: Spacetime and Geometry - An Introduction to General Relativity, by Sean M. Carroll

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. The Schwarzschild Metric
  2. Birkhoff's Theorem
  3. Singularities
  4. Geodesics of Schwarzschild
  5. Experimental Tests
  6. Schwarzschild Black Holes
  7. The Maximally Extended Schwarzschild Solution
  8. Stars and Black Holes

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