GR 2009 lectures

• Dec. 31, 2008 Organizational Meeting

1. Jan. 2, 2009 What is classical gravity? Basic forces in nature; comparison with gravity; Newtonian gravity
2. Jan. 5, 2009 Review of SR: The principle of relativity; application to show that electric and magnetic fields have to mix, obtain the law to first-order in velocities
3. Jan. 7, 2009 Review of SR (contd.): Time-dilation, Lorentz contraction, Transformation of the EM fields
4. Jan 8, 2009
5. Jan 12, 2009
6. Jan 15, 2009
7. Jan 16, 2009 Relativistic particle dynamics (four-velocity; acceleration); affine parameters for trajectories
8. Jan 19, 2009 Massless particles; affine parameter
9. Jan 28, 2009 Uniformly accelerated particles
10. Jan 29, 2009
11. Jan 30, 2009
12. Feb. 2, 2009
13. Feb. 4, 2009
14. Feb. 5, 2009
15. Feb. 6, 2009
16. Feb. 9, 2009
17. Feb. 18, 2009
18. Feb. 19, 2009
19. Feb. 20, 2009 Quiz I (no lecture)
20. Feb. 23, 2009
21. Feb. 27, 2009
22. Mar. 2, 2009
23. Mar. 4, 2009
24. Mar. 9, 2009
25. Mar. 11, 2009
26. Mar. 12, 2009
27. Mar. 13, 2009
28. Mar. 16, 2009
29. Mar. 18, 2009
30. Mar. 20, 2009
31. Mar. 23, 2009
32. Mar. 25, 2009
33. Mar. 26, 2009
34. Mar. 27, 2009 Quiz II (no lecture)
35. Mar. 30, 2009
36. Apr. 1, 2009 Tests of GR
37. Apr. 3, 2009 Tests of GR
38. Apr. 4, 2009 Gravitational waves
39. Apr. 6, 2009 Gravitational waves (contd.)
40. Apr. 8, 2009 Black hole solutions — Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom, Kerr
41. Apr. 9, 2009 Black holes and Thermodynamics
42. Apr. 13, 2009 Black holes and thermodynamics
43. Apr. 15, 2009 Time-dependent solutions
44. Apr. 16, 2009 Cosmology
45. Apr. 20, 2009 Cosmology

• Apr. 29, 2009 End Semester Examination