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UCI Physics 255 Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation (Spring 2014)
Lec 12. Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation -- Field Equations -- Part 2
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Instructor: Herbert W. Hamber, Ph.D.

Description: 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