PHYS 5770 General Relativity Spring 2001: Syllabus

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Grading

Grading will be based on 5 problem sets, plus assessment of your group's BHFS at each of 5 stages, plus an individually written report which describes some aspect of your contribution to the group BHFS.

Item	Weight
5 Problem Sets	5/8
5 Stages of BHFS	3/8
Report on BHFS	2/8

If you add that up, it comes to 10/8. To make it 8/8, I will drop the worst 2/8 of your score.

Content

The first few weeks of the course will cover Special Relativity, while the remainder of the course will be on General Relativity. The emphasis in GR will be on spherically symmetric black holes, including wormholes. We will attempt to cover rotating black holes, gravitational waves, GR aspects of cosmology, and Kaluza-Klein theory, as time permits.

The lectures on relativity will be interspersed with advice about computer graphics, but for the most part you will learn the necessary computer graphics by doing it, by working with your peers, and by reading.

During the second half of every Thursday, you will split into groups and discuss work on your BHFS.

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Updated 16 Jan 2001