Introduction to General Relativity (WS14/15)
Lecturer
J.Prof. Dr. Harald Ita
Dates
- Lecture: 4 hours, Mon 12-14, Tue 8-10; place SR I, Physik Hochhaus; start: 20.10.2014 (Lecturer: Harald Ita)
- Tutorial: 2 hours, Mon 14-16; place SR III, Physik Hochhaus; start: 20.10.2014 (Tutor: Felix Anger)
(Please register during the early lectures.)
Exam (written): Seminarraum GMH, Fr 8-10, 13.2.2015
Nachklausur (written): SRIII Physikhochhaus, 27.2.2015, 9:00-11:00
Problem Sets for Tutorial
Content
- Special relativity and flat spacetime
- Curved spacetimes and their mathematical description (tensors, manifolds, curvature)
- Gravity and its physics in curved spacetimes
- Special solutions to Einstein's equations (Schwarzschild solution, cosmology)
- Perturbation theory and gravitational radiation
For Bachelor-Students
The lecture is suitable as supplementary or elective course; Wahlpflicht- bzw. Wahlbereich.
Prerequisits
Electrodynamics and Special Relativity
Requirements for Academic Record
- active and regular participation in the tutorials, including solutions to 50% of the homework problems.
- in case an exam ( "Prüfungsleistung") is required, a written/oral exam will be offered. Prerequisite is the successful participation in the tutorials.
Further details will be given in the lecture/tutorials.
Textbooks
- Weinberg: "Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity"
- Sean M. Carroll: "Spacetime and Geometry"
- R.U. Sexl / H.K. Urbantke: "Gravitation und Kosmologie"
- C.W. Misner / K.S. Thorne / J.A. Wheeler: "Gravitation"
More advanced Textbooks
- H.J. Dirschmid: "Tensoren und Felder"
- R.M. Wald: "General Relativity"
- R.D. Feynman: "Feynman Lectures On Gravitation"
- Nakahara: "Geometry, Topology and Physics"
Online lecture notes
- source list + lecture notes: Prof. Mathias Blau (Univ. Bern)
- Prof. Sean Carroll (CalTech)
