Relativity and Cosmology I14756.2014 | Winter term 2017/18Mondays,
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 |
Exercise classes
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 |
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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 |
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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.
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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)
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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