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UCI Physics 255 Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation (Spring 2014)
Lec 16. Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation -- Solutions to the Field Equations -- Part 3
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Instructor: Herbert W. Hamber, Ph.D.

Description: Weak and Strong Gravitational Fields, The Weak Field Expansion, Choice of Background Metric, Linear Part of the Ricci Tensor, Local Gauge Invariance, Gauge Conditions, Wave Equation and Explicit Solution in Terms of Retarded Potentials, Plane Wave
Solution, Polarization Amplitudes, Transverse Traceless Modes
as Physical Modes, Spin Two of the Graviton.