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Institute for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics

Relativity and Cosmology I 53109  |  Winter term 2012/13 Prof. Dr. Claus Kiefer Mondays, 16:00-17:30, and Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30, in the seminar room of the Institute for Theoretical Physics Start: October 8, 2012 Master core course within the Primary Area of Specialization GR-QFT »  Contents of the lecture

Exercise classes

Organization:	Manuel Krämer — mk@thp.uni-koeln.de, office K105 (Nuclear Physics Institute, ground floor)
Time and place:	Thursdays, 14:00-15:30, in the seminar room of the Institute for Nuclear Physics (ground floor) Start: October 25, 2012

Exercise sheets

Copies of the exercise sheets can be found in front of the entrance of the Institute for Theoretical Physics. New exercise sheets will be put there each Wednesday after the lecture (11:30 am). Alternatively, they can be downloaded below.
The solutions to the exercises have to be handed in one week later at the end of the lecture on Wednesday or during the exercise class on Thursday by each student individually. The exercises are then discussed yet another week later.

No.	Release	Deadline	Discussion
Exercise sheet 1	October 10	Wed, October 17	October 25
Exercise sheet 2	October 17	Thu, October 25	November 8
Exercise sheet 3	October 24	Wed, Oct 31/Thu, Nov 8	November 8 and 15
Exercise sheet 4	October 31	Thu, November 8	November 15
Exercise sheet 5	November 7	Thu, November 15	November 22
Exercise sheet 6	November 14	Thu, November 22	November 29
Exercise sheet 7	November 21	Thu, November 29	December 6
Exercise sheet 8	November 28	Thu, December 6	December 13
Exercise sheet 9	December 5	Thu, December 13	December 20
Exercise sheet 10	December 12	Thu, December 20	January 10
Exercise sheet 11	December 19	Thu, January 10	January 17
Exercise sheet 12	January 9	Thu, January 17	January 24
Exercise sheet 13	January 16	Mon, January 28	January 31

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)
• P. Padmanabhan, Gravitation (Cambridge University Press)
• C. Misner, K. Thorne, J. A. Wheeler, Gravitation (W. H. Freeman)
• R. Sexl, H. Urbantke, Gravitation und Kosmologie (Spektrum)
• Lecture notes by H. Matschull, University of Mainz (in German): Part 1, Part 2

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)