PHY519 Applications of General Relativity
General Information
| Lecturer: | Prof. Philippe Jetzer |
| Assistants: |
Simone Balmelli (Irchel, Y36 K32) |
| Lecture: | Friday 09:45-11:30 (Hönggerberg, HPV G4) |
| Exercises: | Friday 11:45-12:30 (Hönggerberg, HPV G4) |
Lecture Notes
We are happy if you report any mistakes or typos to Simone.
Variations between the lecture notes and the black board may occur occasionally.
There exist some unofficial lecture notes of 2010 by Felix Hähl on the ETH Lecture Notes Repository.
Exercises
Solutions to the exercises will appear below with a slight delay to the exercise class.
Material from the General Relativity Lecture
The lecture notes can be found here (PDF, 1 MB).
Additional Material
- Popular lecture notes by Sean Caroll
Recommended Books
- 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