General Relativity (Physics 364) Winter quarter, 2005 (black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 7052, from Astronomy Picture of the Day) Description Physics 364 is the graduate course in general relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravitation as the curvature of spacetime, a subject which has become an increasingly necessary part of the graduate curriculum. Aside from being a fundamental pillar of modern physics, and hence something that should be familiar to any educated person, general relativity..