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Foil 10 The Metric Tensor in Einstein's Formulation of General Relativity-II

From Master Foilset of Numerical Formulation and Solution of Collision 0f two Black Holes CPSP713 Case studies in Computational Science -- Spring Semester 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * Critical Information in IMAGE

Each of 16 (10 independent) components of 4 by 4 tensor g mn is a function
of the four vector
Einstein's equations are nonlinear equations for the metric g and its derivatives usually constructed in terms of so called Christoffel Symbol G



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