20. Spherical compact sources I

MIT General Relativity, Spring 2020 Instructor: Scott Hughes View the complete course: YouTube Playlist: 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. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at More courses at Support OCW at We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at