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Institute for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics

Relativity and Cosmology II 53107  |  Summer term 2014 Prof. Dr. Claus Kiefer Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30, and Thursdays, 8:00-9:30, in the seminar room of the Institute for Theoretical Physics Start: April 8, 2014 Master core course within the Primary Area of Specialization GR-QFT »  Contents of the lecture

Exercise classes

Organization:	Manuel Krämer and Jens Boos — office K105 (Nuclear Physics Institute, ground floor)
Time and place:	Group 1: Wednesdays, 14:00-15:30, in the seminar room of the Institute for Theoretical Physics Group 2: Wednesdays, 16:25-17:55, in the seminar room of the container building Start: April 16, 2014

Exercise sheets

New exercise sheets will be released each Tuesday before 11:30 am 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 solutions to the exercises have to be handed in one week later during the exercise class by each student individually.
The exercises are usually discussed one week after the respective deadline.

No.	Release	Deadline	Discussion
Exercise sheet 1	April 8	April 16	April 16
Exercise sheet 2	April 15	Thu, April 24	April 30
Exercise sheet 3	April 22	April 30	May 7
Exercise sheet 4	April 30	Thu, May 8	May 14
Exercise sheet 5	May 6	May 14	May 21
Exercise sheet 6	May 13	May 21	May 28
Exercise sheet 7	May 20	May 28	June 4
Exercise sheet 8	May 27	June 4	June 18
Exercise sheet 9	June 3	June 18	June 25
Exercise sheet 10	June 17	June 25	July 2
Exercise sheet 11	June 24	July 2	July 9
Exercise sheet 12	July 1	July 9	July 16

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)
• Addendum to the lecture on April 24 by Prof. F. W. Hehl: The Einstein field equation in exterior calculus [pdf]

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)