PHY511 General Relativity
General Information
| Lecturer: | Prof. Philippe Jetzer |
| Assistants: |
Maria Haney (Irchel, Y36 K34) Shubhanshu Tiwari (Irchel, Y36 K34) Adrian Boitier (Irchel, Y36 K32) Michael Ebersold (Irchel, Y36 K32) Lukas Fritz (PSI) Andrea Dei (ETH, HIT K22.4) |
| Lecture: |
Tuesday 14:45-16:30 (Hönggerberg, HPV G5) Thursday 10:45-12:30 (Hönggerberg, HPV G5) |
| Exercise classes: |
Adrian / Shubhanshu: Thursday 15:45-17:30 (ETH, HIT F 31.1) Lukas: Friday 12:45-14:30 (ETH, HIT F 13) Andrea: Friday 12:45-14:30 (ETH, HIT J 51) Michael: Friday 13:00-14:45 (Irchel, Y36 J 33) |
| Misc: | |
| Exam Preparation: |
Official Q&A Sessions: 13 January 2020, 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-16:00 at Irchel, Y36 K 08 Otherwise arrange yourselves individually with any of the assistants. |
| Exam: |
Date: 20 January 2020, 09:00 - 12:00 Location: ETH Hönggerberg, HIL G 61 Mode: written exam, 180 minutes Aid: 10 double-sided A4 pages |
Lecture notes
General Relativity (PDF, 1 MB)
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Exercises
Additional material
- Popular lecture notes by Sean Carroll
Recommended books
- S. Carroll, Spacetime and Geometry, Pearson, 2003
- S. Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology, Wiley, 1972
- N. Straumann, General Relativity with applications to Astrophysics, Springer Verlag, 2004
- C. Misner, K. Thorne and J. Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman, 1973
- R. Wald, General Relativity, Chicago University Press, 1984
- T. Fliessbach, Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Spektrum Verlag, 1995
- B. Schutz, A first course in General Relativity, Cambridge, 1985
- R. Sachs and H. Wu, General Relativity for mathematicians, Springer Verlag, 1977
- J. Hartle, Gravity, An introduction to Einstein's General Relativity, Addison Wesley, 2002
- H. Stephani, General Relativity, Cambridge University Press, 1990
- A. Zee, Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press, 2013
- M. Guidry, Modern General Relativity, Cambridge University Press, 2019