PH 482 - Relativity

Dr. S Fabi



REFERENCE TEXTBOOKS

H. C. Ohanian and R. Ruffini - Gravitation and Spacetime. (undergraduate)
M. Guidry - Modern General Relativity. slides version. (undergraduate)
S. B. Carroll - Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. (graduate)

  - suggested textbook for General Relativity
B. Schutz - A First Course in General Relativity. (undergraduate)

  - suggested textbook for Differential Geometry
 B. Schutz - Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics. (undergraduate)
M. Nakahara - Geometry, Topology and Physics. (graduate)

References Guide


LECTURE NOTES

  - tensor
K. M. Udayanandan - Lecture notes on introduction to tensors
K. Dullemond & K. - Introduction to tensor calculus

  - relativity
 Minkowski Spacetime - Lecture Notes
Stony Brook -  Slide on Special Relativity
Sean  Carroll  -  Lecture notes on General Relativity (for cosmology)
Columbia University -  Lecture Notes on General Relativity
Einstein Field Equation - Video Lecture for GR
Schwarzschild Solution - Lecture Notes
M87 Black Hole Picture - Papers

BASIC LINKS

Undergraduate physics Hyperphysics
arXiv open archive arXiv
All the papers you want Sci-Hub
All the textbooks you want Library Genesis

Unsolved problems in physics Wikipedia


HOMEWORK

Homework set
 Problems
 Due Date
HW1 - Special Relativity 1
 HW1
06 - Sep at 5:00pm
HW2 - Lorentz Tensors
 HW2
13 - Sep at 5:00pm
HW3 - Metric
 HW3
22 - Sep at 5:00pm
HW4 - Special Relativity 2
 HW4
29 - Sep at 5:00pm
HW5 - Covariant Electromagnetism
HW5
18 - Oct at 5:00pm (extra credit)
HW6 - Tensors
 HW6
18 - Oct at 5:00pm
HW7 - Riemannian Geometry
HW7
25 - Oct at 5:00pm
HW8 - Curvature
HW8
03 - Nov at 5:00pm
HW9 - Black Holes
HW9
17 - Nov at 5:00pm
HW10 - Cosmology
HW10
08 - Dec at 5:00pm


Final Exam - Take Home

Due Date TBA


FORMULA

Exam 1  
Exam 2





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