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Institute for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics

Relativity and Cosmology II 53106  |  Summer term 2013 Prof. Dr. Claus Kiefer Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30, in the seminar room of the Institute for Nuclear Physics Fridays, 10:00-11:30, in the seminar room of the Institute for Theoretical Physics Start: April 10, 2013 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 conference room of the Institute for Theoretical Physics Start: April 18, 2013

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. Students who have not passed the first part of the course have to hand in their solutions individually. Students who have passed the first part can hand in their solutions in groups of two.

No.	Release	Deadline	Discussion
Exercise sheet 1	April 10	Wed, April 17	April 18
Exercise sheet 2	April 17	Wed, April 24	May 2
Exercise sheet 3	April 24	Thu, May 2	May 16
Exercise sheet 4	April 30	Wed, May 8	May 16
Exercise sheet 5	May 8	Thu, May 16	June 6
Exercise sheet 6	May 15	Wed, May 29	June 6
Exercise sheet 7	May 29	Thu, June 6	June 13
Exercise sheet 8	June 5	Thu, June 13	June 20
Exercise sheet 9	June 12	Thu, June 27	June 27
Exercise sheet 10	June 19	Thu, June 27	July 4
Exercise sheet 11	June 26	Thu, July 4	July 18
Exercise sheet 12	July 3	Wed, July 10	July 18

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)