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Institute for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics

Relativity and Cosmology II 53126  |  Summer term 2016 Prof. Dr. Claus Kiefer Wednesdays, 8:00-9:30, and Fridays, 10:00-11:30, in the seminar room 0.03 in the New building TP Start: April 13, 2016 Please note: no lecture course on Friday, July 1 Master core course within the Primary Area of Specialization GR-QFT »  Contents of the lecture

Exercise classes

Start:	April 21, 2016
Organization:	Branislav Nikolic and Nick Kwidzinski
Time and place:	Thursdays 14:00 - 15:30, in Room 1 of the new building TP

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 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	Remark
Exercise sheet 1	April 13	April 21	April 28
Exercise sheet 2	April 20	April 28	May 12	Updated!
Exercise sheet 3	April 27	Friday, May 6, after the lecture	May 12
Exercise sheet 4	May 4	May 12	June 2
Exercise sheet 5	May 11	Friday, May 27, after the lecture	June 2
Exercise sheet 6	May 25	June 2	June 9
Exercise sheet 7	June 1	June 9	June 16
Exercise sheet 8	June 8	June 16	June 23
Exercise sheet 9	June 15	June 23	June 30
Exercise sheet 10	June 22	June 30	July 7
Exercise sheet 11	June 29	July 7	July 15
Exercise sheet 12	July 6	July 14	July 21

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)

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)