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 schedule PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity) Spring 2010: Timetable

Week Tuesday Thursday
1 Jan 12
Special Relativity (website)
Special Relativity (notes) 		Jan 14
2 Jan 19
Late start: 6pm 		Jan 21
3 Jan 26
Problem Set 1 due in class
Coordinate approach to General Relativity (notes) 		Jan 28
4 Feb 2 Feb 4
5 Feb 9
Problem Set 2 due in class
Falling into a Black Hole (website)
Inside Black Holes (website)
Ideal Black Holes (notes) 		Feb 11
6 Feb 16 Feb 18
7 Feb 23
Problem Set 3 due in class
Homogeneous, isotropic cosmology (notes) 		Feb 25
8 Mar 2 Mar 4
24-hour take-home Midterm available
9 Mar 9
Tetrad approach to general relativity (notes) 		Mar 11
10 Mar 16
Problem Set 4 due in class
Mar 18
11 Spring Break
12 Mar 30
The Geometric Algebra (notes)
Black Hole Interiors (notes) 		Apr 1
13 Apr 6 Apr 8
14 Apr 13
Problem Set 5 due in class
General Relativistic Perturbation Theory (notes) 		Apr 15
15 Apr 20
Cosmological Perturbations (notes) 		Apr 22
16 Apr 27
Problem Set 6 due in class
Apr 29
24-hour take-home Final available
17 May 4 May 6
Final due

 General relativistic volume rendering of a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a disk and jet around a black hole Spring 2010 PHYS 5770 Homepage

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