Relativity and Cosmology II14756.2035 Summer term 2023
This course will be given in a hybrid format. The lectures are
available online here. For convenience we will republish the material on this page weekly on
Monday and Wednesday.
Start: April 3. In addition, there will be a questions and answers session (in presence) on Wednesdays at 12:00 in room 0.02 (new building). On June 14, this event will not take place. Start: April 19. Master core course within the Primary Area of Specialization GR-QFT |
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Lectures
Exercise classes
Start: | April 20 |
Time and place: |
Exercise class I:
14:00–15:30; room 0.01 (new building)
Tutor: Tatevik Vardanyan (tatevik@thp.uni-koeln.de) |
Exercise class II:
16:00–17:30; room 0.01 (new building)
Tutor: Mauricio Ortiz Torres (mortizto@smail.uni-koeln.de) |
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Exercise sheets
New exercise sheets will be released each Thursday and can be downloaded below. The exercises have to be submitted one week later in the class. The exercises will be discussed on the specified date on the sheet and below. Please show up on April 20 with your solutions of the first exercise sheet at the time of your choice (14:00 or 16:00). Perhaps we have to redistribute the participants in case that too many people have chosen one class (and too little the other classes). Please submit the solutions individually (one solution per student), group submissions are not accepted. Attention: The sheet 5 will be discussed on 7th of June (Wednesday) at 16:00-17:30 (both groups together).The solutions of the exercise sheets can be found here. The password will be sent by email.
Exercise | Release | Submit | Discuss | Remark |
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Sheet 1 | Apr 13, 2023 | Apr 20 | Apr 27 | |
Sheet 2 | Apr 20 | Apr 27 | May 4 | ver 1.01 |
Sheet 3 | Apr 27 | May 4 | May 11 | |
Sheet 4 | May 4 | May 11 | May 25 | |
Sheet 5 | May 11 | May 25 | Jun 7 | |
Sheet 6 | May 25 | Jun 7 | Jun 15 | ver 1.10 |
Sheet 7 | Jun 7 | Jun 15 | Jun 22 | |
Sheet 8 | Jun 15 | Jun 22 | Jun 29 | |
Sheet 9 | Jun 22 | Jun 29 | Jul 6 | |
Sheet 10 | Jun 29 | Jul 6 | Jul 13 |
Criteria for passing the course
- Active participation in the exercise class.
- At least 50 % of the credit points from the exercises.
Literature
- S. Carroll,
Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General
Relativity (Addison-Wesley)
The lecture notes, on which this book is based, can be found on arXiv:gr-qc/9712019, and in html at Caltech - J. B. Hartle, Gravity (Addison-Wesley)
Further reading
- C. Misner, K. Thorne, J. A. Wheeler, Gravitation (W. H. Freeman)
- R. M. Wald, General Relativity (University of Chicago Press)
- W. Rindler, Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological (Oxford University Press) (de)
- R. d’Inverno, Introducing Einstein's Relativity (Oxford University Press) (de)
- N. Straumann, General Relativity (Springer) (de)
- Steven Carlip,
General Relativity: A Concise Introduction (Oxford University Press)
This book is also suitable for preparing the exam (Relativity I and II).
Contents of the lecture
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- 10. Differential geometry II: Modern formulation
- 11. Relativistic stars and black holes
- 12. Foundations of Cosmology
- 13. The Early Universe
- 14. Quantum Theory and Gravity
» Close