20. Spherical compact sources I

MIT 8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2020
Instructor: Scott Hughes
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Spherically symmetric and compact bodies.  We develop the spacetime of a spherical ‘star’ made of some kind of matter, using the Einstein field equations to develop the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov (TOV) equations which determine this body’s structure and that generalize the Newtonian equations of stellar structure to general relativity.

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