2013–2014 General Relativity

 

  1. 1.Logistic details

  2. •Dates & time: 13:00 on Tuesdays and 9:00 on Fridays every week

  3. -First class: 29 October; last class 13 December

  4. •Rooms: check on DataNose each time

  5. •Final exam: 19 December, 9:00–12:15, Tentamenzaal USC Sporthal 2

  6. •Teaching assistants: Michael Feyereisen (m.r.feyereisen {at} uva.nl), Laura van der Schaaf (laura.vanderschaaf {at} student.uva.nl)

  7. •Credit: 6EC

  8. 2.Textbooks

  9. •S. M. Carroll: “Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity” (Benjamin Cummings, 2003)

  10. •B. Shutz: “A First Course in General Relativity” (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2009)

  11. •C. W. Misner, K. S. Thorne, & J. A. Wheeler: “Gravitation” (W. H. Freeman, 1973)

  12. •R. W. Wald: “General Relativity” (University of Chicago Press, 1984)

  13. •S. Weinberg: “Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity” (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,1972)

  14. •L. D. Landau & E. M. Lifshitz: “The Classical Theory of Fields” (Butterworth-Heinemann, 4th edition, 1980)

  15. 3.Covered contents (equivalent of sections in Carroll 2003) and exercise problems

  16. •October 29: Secs. 1.1–1.3 (Exercises)

  17. •November 1: Secs. 1.4–1.8, part of Sec. 1.9 (Exercises)

  18. •November 8: Secs. 2.1−2.3, part of Sec. 2.4 (Exercises)

  19. •November 12: Secs. 2.4, 2.5, part of Secs. 2.8 and 2.10 (Exercises)

  20. •November 15: Secs. 3.1−3.6

  21. •November 19: Secs. 3.7, 3.10, part of Sec. 1.9

  22. •November 22: Secs. 1.9, 4.1, 4.2

  23. •November 26: Secs. 1.10, 4.3, 5.1 (Exercises)

  24. •November 29: Secs. 5.4, 5.5, part of Sec. 5.6

  25. •November 3: part of Sec. 5.6, Secs. 5.7, 7.1, 7.2

  26. •December 6: Secs. 7.3, 7.4

  27. •December 10: Secs. 7.4, 7.5, 8.2

  28. •December 13: Secs. 8.2−8.4