Program Name (Bs Mathematics)

Punjab College (Multan)

Exam Mid Term (S-21)

Semester 8th

Program Name Bs Mathematics (M17)

Course Name General Relativity

Course Code MATH4173

Credit Hour 3

Course Instructor Prof – M. Ahmad Raza

Total Marks 30

Time Allowed 60 Minutes

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Question No 1:
Choose the most appropriate option. Overwriting and cutting is not allowed.

1. In absence of metric, a complete set of symmetry conditions for Riemann is 𝑹𝜶 𝜷𝜸𝜹 =?

a. 0
b. 1
c. 𝜂𝛼𝛽
d. 𝜂𝛾𝛿

2. If velocity of box in rest frame is 𝟎. 𝟗 then value of 𝜸 =?

a. 0.43
b. 1.5
c. 2.29
d. 5.75

3. In curved as in space time,𝛁 can be applied to?

a. Scalar field
b. Vector field
c. 2-form field
d. All of them

4. Null energy condition states that for any null vector 𝒍𝒂 , 𝑻𝒂𝒃 𝒍𝒂 𝒍𝒃 ---0?
a. <
b. >
c. ≤
d. ≥

5. Take a point in an n-dimensional manifold. Dimensionality of this manifold is?

a. 𝑛
b. 𝑛 + 1
c. 𝑛 − 1
d. (𝑛 − 1)!

6. A metric is ---- on tangent space at each point.

a. Outer product
b. Inner product
c. Tensor field
d. Vacuum equation

7. It is possible to make a black hole “Swallow” a particle or wave with?

a. Negative total energy
b. Positive total energy
c. Negative momentum
d. Positive momentum

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8. We obtain vacuum equation by setting each component of ----equal to zero.
a. Geodesic
b. Ricci Scalar
c. Riemannian tensor
d. Ricci tensor

9. In rectangular coordinates on a flat sheet of paper, geodesics satisfy?

𝑑2 𝑥 𝑑2 𝑦
a. = 1, 𝑑𝜆2 = 0
𝑑𝜆2
𝑑2 𝑥 𝑑2 𝑦
b. = 0, 𝑑𝜆2 = 0
𝑑𝜆2
𝑑2 𝑥 𝑑2 𝑦
c. = 0, 𝑑𝜆2 = 1
𝑑𝜆2
𝑑2 𝑥 𝑑2 𝑦
d. = 1, =1
𝑑𝜆2 𝑑𝜆2

10. In a local Lorentz frame at a given event 𝒑𝟎 , 𝒈𝝁𝒗 (𝒑𝟎 ) is equal to?
a. 0
b. 1
c. 𝜂𝜇𝑣
d. 𝑥 𝜇