Recorded: May 8, 2014
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Lecture 12: Field Equations 2
Course Description: "Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation" is taught at UCI as Physics 255. Topics covered: Einstein-Hilbert Action, Variational Principle, Palatini Identity. Role of the Action in Constructing the Feynman Path Integral for Quantized Gravity. Gravitational Functional Measure. Need to Maintain General Covariance. Scalar-Tensor Extensions of Gravity. Brans-Dicke Theory. Field Equation Modifications from the Massless BD Scalar.
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