Prof. Dr. Luca Amendola
Tel: +49-6221-549-407 -- Fax: +49-6221-549-333 Sprechstunde:
After my lectures |
General Relativity
coordinates: Monday and Wednesday at 9:15-11:00 am ONLINE
Summer Semester 2021
The course is an introduction to General Relativity. Suggested prerequisites: Classical Mechanics; Electromagnetism (including Special Relativity, although we will review it in the first lectures).Program
- Special Relativity
- Vectors and tensors
- Manifolds
- The Energy Momentum tensor
- Curvature
- Equations of GR
- Gravitational Waves
- Schwarzschild solution and its generalizations
- Cosmology
NOTE: Course begins on April 12th, 2021, 9:15 am (ONLINE, with recorded lectures)
Exercise classes start from the week after the beginning of the course, at various locations/times.
The problem sheets will be distributed during the course; normally, new problem sheets will be posted on Monday every week here.
The exercise will be graded; you have to pass a minimum threshold to be admitted to the final exam
For every question regarding the exercises, please contact your tutor or the Obertutor, Dr. Adriá Gomez-Valent
First Exam (online): 21 July 2pm
Second Exam (online): October 14th, 2021, from 2pm to 4:30pm
Calendar (9:15-11:00 am):
12.04
14.04
19.04
21.04
26.04
28.04
03.05
05.05
10.05
12.05
17.05
19.05
26.05
31.05
02.06
07.06
09.06
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21.06
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30.06
05.07
07.07
12.07
14.07
CREDITS: 8
Suggested texts:
Lecture notes
B. Schutz, A First Course in
General Relativity, Cambridge University Press, Second Edition (the first
one is fine as well)
Very clear and concise, with all the important derivations
detailed out step-by-step.
S. Carroll, Spacetime and geometry, An Introduction to General
Relativity, Addison-Wesley (a shorter version of the book is available for
free here.)
This book contains lots of additional material. It
is very well written, with many figures and several appendices exploring
advanced material. I will use it mostly for some applications of
Einstein equations and for exercises.
M. Maggiore, Gravitational Waves, Vol. I, Oxford University Press
Focus on GW, of course, but also with important insights on the
field-theoretical structure of GR; see in particular the first two chapters; requires some introductory
knowledge of GR.
