Relativity and Cosmology I14756.2014 | Winter term 2018/19Mondays,
16:00-17:30, and Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30,
Master core course within the Primary Area of Specialization GR-QFT » Contents of the lecture |
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Exercise classes
Start: | Thursday, October 18 |
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Organization: |
Nick Kwidzinski (office: 2.02 new building ThP), Yi-Fan Wang (office: 107 old building ThP) |
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Time and place: |
Exercise class I:
Thursday, 14:00-15:30, in Room 0.01 in the new building ThP Tutor: Nick Kwidzinski |
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Exercise class II:
Thursday, 16:00-17:30, in Room 0.02 in the new building ThP Tutor: Yi-Fan Wang |
Exercise sheets
New exercise sheets will be released each Monday and can be downloaded below.A limited amount of copies will also be put in the respective shelf next to the entrance of the Institute for Theoretical Physics.
The exercises will be discussed on the specified date on the sheet and below.
| Exercise | Release | Submit | Discuss | Remark |
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| Sheet 1 | October 15 | October 22 | October 25 | ver. 1.1 |
| Sheet 2 | October 22 | November 5 | November 8 | |
| Sheet 3 | November 5 | November 12 | November 15 | ver. 1.1 |
| Sheet 4 | November 12 | November 19 | November 22 | |
| Sheet 5 | November 19 | November 26 | November 29 | |
| Sheet 6 | November 26 | December 3 | December 6 | |
| Sheet 7 | December 3 | December 10 | December 13 | |
| Sheet 8 | December 10 | December 17 | December 20 | |
| Sheet 9 | December 17 | January 7 | January 10 | ver. 1.1 |
| Sheet 10 | January 7 | January 14 | January 17 | |
| Sheet 11 | January 14 | January 21 | January 24 | ver. 1.9 |
| Sheet 12 | January 21 | January 28 | January 31 | the last sheet |
Criteria for passing the course
- Active participation in the exercise class, i.e. presenting a solution to an exercise at least twice.
- At least 50 % of the credit points from the exercises.
Literature
- J. B. Hartle, Gravity (Addison-Wesley)
- S. Carroll, Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity (Addison-Wesley)
- C. Misner, K. Thorne, J. A. Wheeler, Gravitation (W. H. Freeman)
Further reading
- R. M. Wald, General Relativity (University of Chicago Press)
- W. Rindler, Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological (Oxford University Press)
- R. d’Inverno, Introducing Einstein's Relativity (Oxford University Press)
- N. Straumann, General Relativity (Springer)
Contents of the lecture
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Newtonian Gravity
- 3. Special relativity
- 4. Gravity as geometry
- 5. Differential geometry I: Classic formulation
- 6. Einstein's field equations and their linear approximation
- 7. Gravitational waves
- 8. The Schwarzschild solution
- 9. Geodesics in the Schwarzschild solution
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