General Relativity Autumn 2018
Lecture Notes, Exercises, Solutions, and more ...
When and Where
- Monday 13h15 -- 15h, Tuesday 12h15 -- 14h, room 119
- Starting Date: Monday September 17th
Lecture Notes
- GR Lecture Notes Website (overview)
- [newlecturesGR.pdf] (direct link to the pdf-file)
- Note:
this new version has 900+ pages (!).
Please save trees and don't print all of it at once, we will only cover some small parts of
the notes in the course
Exercises and Solutions
Oral Exams
- If you are planning to take the exam in January / February 2019, please sign up
for the exam via KSL until January 15th!
- Dates:
- Theory Master Students: January 17/18. Contact me for precise or preferred time. (OK, done, thank you!)
- Others (Erasmus, Experimental Master etc): Contact me for individual appointments. Preferably either January 14-16, or February 11-13
- Confirmed/agreed Dates and Time:
- January 16, 14h: William Buvik
- January 16, 15h: Marie Cornelius Hansen
- January 17, 11h: Jonas Buergi
- January 17, 12h: Witali Krochin
- January 17, 14h: Andrin Kessler
- January 17, 15h:
- January 18, 11h: Simona Procacci
- January 18, 12h: Daniel Blaser
- January 18, 14h: Irina Rusetski
- January 18, 15h:
Antea Doriot
- February 12, 11h: Stephan Raess
- February 12, 12h: Peter Bruegger
- February 12, 14h: Cornelis Doorenbos
Highly Recommended Literature
- Excellent Introductory (Undergraduate) Texts
- N.M.J. Woodhouse: General Relativity
- J.B. Hartle: Gravity, An introduction to Einstein's General Relativity
- Elegant Modern Slightly More Advanced Books
- R.M. Wald: General Relativity
- S. Carroll: Spacetime and Geometry, an Introduction to General Relativity
- Classics
- C.W. Misner, K.S. Thorne, J.A. Wheeler: Gravitation
- S. Weinberg: Gravitation and Cosmology
- Other Personal Favourites
- R.U. Sexl, H.K. Urbantke: Gravitation und Kosmologie
- N. Straumann: General Relativity
- S.W. Hawking, G.F.R. Ellis: The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
- E. Poisson: A Relativist's Toolkit
- Other Recommended Recent/New Books
- A. Zee: Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell
GR Lectures Notes on the WWW and related Online Resources
Note: the resources mentioned below are approved/recommended. If you come across, and want to use, some other
online resources, please come and show them to me (also in GR, there is much more low- than high-quality
stuff floating around on the WWW and it may not always be easy for you to decide at first sight which is which).
Please let me know of any broken (no longer existing) links.
- Albert Einstein:
Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie (Annalen der Physik, 1916)
- Einstein Papers Project
- GR Lecture Notes: General
- GR Lecture Notes: Black Holes
- GR Lecture Notes: Cosmology
- Was Einstein Right? (Ask Clifford M. Will!)
- GR Lecture Notes: Other
- Other Useful, Informative or Entertaining Online Resources
- Is our Universe a Black Hole? NO And since I get
asked this question again and again (as if there weren't more interesting questions), usually by people
who understand neither cosmology nor black holes, here are some links:
- Important Advice (from Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft):
Contact
- Matthias Blau, Office 220a