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Institute for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics

Relativity and Cosmology I 14756.2014  |  Winter term 2017/18 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 (old building) Start: October 9, 2017 Master core course within the Primary Area of Specialization GR-QFT »  Contents of the lecture

Exercise classes

Start: October 19

Organization:	Branislav Nikolic (office: 3.04 new building TP), Nick Kwidzinski (office: 2.02 new building TP) and YiFan Wang (office: 107 old building TP)
Time and place:	Exercise class I: Thursday, 14:00-15:30, in Room 0.01 in the new building TP Tutor: Nick Kwidzinski
	Exercise class II: Thursday, 16:00-17:30, in Room 0.02 in the new building TP, except October 19, when it will take place at 17:45 in room 0.01 Tutor: Branislav Nikolic
	Exercise class III: Thursday, 16:00-17:30, conference room in the old building TP Tutor: YiFan Wang

Exercise sheets

New exercise sheets will be released each Wednesday before noon 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 are usually discussed one week after the respective deadline.

No.	Release	Deadline	Discussion	Remark
Exercise sheet 1	October 18	October 26	November 2
Exercise sheet 2	October 25	November 2	November 9
Exercise sheet 3	November 2	November 9	November 16
Exercise sheet 4	November 8	November 16	November 23	Updated!
Exercise sheet 5	November 15	November 23	December 30
Exercise sheet 6	November 22	November 30	December 7
Exercise sheet 7	November 29	December 7	December 14
Exercise sheet 8	December 6	December 14	December 21
Exercise sheet 9	December 13	December 21	January 11
Exercise sheet 10	December 20	January 11	January 18
Exercise sheet 11	January 10	January 18	January 25	Last exercise sheet

Criteria for passing the course

• At least 50 % of the credit points in the written test.
• Written test: Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 16:00-18:00 in Hörsaal (lecture hall) III
  Please note that there will be no lecture course on that day.

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)