Using Maple + GRTensorII in teaching basics of General Relativity and Cosmology

TL;DR

This paper introduces Maple procedures utilizing GRTensorII to facilitate teaching fundamental concepts of General Relativity and Cosmology through practical examples like Schwarzschild solution and simple cosmological models.

Contribution

It provides new Maple procedures and demonstrates their application in teaching core topics of GR and Cosmology with practical examples.

Findings

Successfully built Schwarzschild solution using Maple procedures

Analyzed simple cosmological models with the proposed methods

Enhanced teaching tools for GR and Cosmology concepts

Abstract

In this article we propose some Maple procedures, for teaching purposes, to study the basics of General Relativity (GR) and Cosmology. After presenting some features of GRTensorII, a package specially built to deal with GR, we give two examples of how one can use these procedures. In the first example we build the Schwarzschild solution of Einstein equations, while in the second one we study some simple cosmological models.