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 schedule PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity) Spring 2016: Timetable

Week Tuesday Thursday
1 Jan 12
Ch 1. Special Relativity
Special Relativity (website) 		Jan 14
2 Jan 19
Problem Set 1 due in class
Jan 21
3 Jan 26
Ch 2. General Relativity
Problem Set 2 due in class
Jan 28
4 Feb 2
Problem Set 3 due in class
Feb 4
5 Feb 9
Problem Set 4 due in class
Feb 11
Gravitational waves detected by LIGO!
Ch 3. Weyl tensor
6 Feb 16
Ch 4. Action principle for point particles
Problem Set 5 due in class
Feb 18
Ch 5. Observational Evidence for Black Holes
Images
7 Feb 23
Ch 6–8. Schwarzshild black hole
Falling into a Black Hole (website)
Inside Black Holes (website)
Problem Set 6 due in class
Feb 25
8 Mar 1
Ch 8. Reissner-Nordström black hole
Problem Set 7 due in class
Mar 3
Ch 9. Kerr black hole
24-hour take-home Midterm available
9 Mar 8
Ch 10. Cosmology 		Mar 10
Midterm due
10 Mar 15 Mar 17
Problem Set 8 due in class
11 Spring Break
12 Mar 29
Ch 11. Tetrad approach to general relativity 		Mar 31
13 Apr 5
Ch 19–21. Black hole interiors
Problem Set 9 due in class
Apr 7
14 Apr 12
Ch 16. Action principle for gravity
Problem Set 10 due in class
Apr 14
Ch 25, 26. General Relativistic Perturbation Theory
15 Apr 19
FCQ week 		Apr 21
Ch 27–29. Cosmological Perturbations
16 Apr 26 Apr 28
24-hour take-home Final available
17 May 3 May 5
Final due

 General relativistic volume rendering of a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a disk and jet around a black hole Spring 2016 PHYS 5770 Homepage

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