How easy is GR after continuum mechanics?

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how easy does it become to learn general relativity after a good course in continuum mechanics?
 

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It's significantly easier. At least, since that's the order I learned the topics, I think it was fairly straightforward to learn the basics of GR after taking a good continuum mechanics class.
 

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