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 schedule PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity) Spring 2008: Timetable

Week Tuesday Thursday
1 Jan 15
Special Relativity (website)
Special Relativity (notes) 		Jan 17
2 Jan 22 Jan 24
3 Jan 29
Problem Set 1 due in class
Fundamentals of General Relativity (notes) 		Jan 31
4 Feb 5 Feb 7
5 Feb 12
Problem Set 2 due in class
Black Holes (website)
Black Holes (notes) 		Feb 14
6 Feb 19 Feb 21
7 Feb 26
Problem Set 3 due in class
FRW metric (notes) 		Feb 28
8 Mar 4 Mar 6
24-hour take-home Midterm available
9 Mar 11 Mar 13
10 Mar 18
Problem Set 4 due in class
General Relativity with Tetrads (notes) 		Mar 20
11 Spring Break
12 Apr 1
Class rescheduled 		Apr 3
13 Apr 8 Apr 10
14 Apr 15
Problem Set 5 due in class
General Relativistic Perturbation Theory (notes) 		Apr 17
15 Apr 22 Apr 24
16 Apr 29
Problem Set 6 due in class
May 1
17 May 6 May 8
7:30-10:30pm Final

 General relativistic volume rendering of a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a disk and jet around a black hole Spring 2008 PHYS 5770 Homepage

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Updated 2008 Apr 15