Introduction to General Relativity
SS 22

Modul: Moderne Aspekte der Physik (B.Sc.)
       Ausgewählte Themen moderner Physik (M.Sc.)

4 x 13 = 52 hrs lectures
2 x 13 = 26 hrs exercises

8 credit points


CONTENTS:

1. Special Relativity and Flat Spacetime

2. Manifolds

3. Curvature

4. Gravitation

5. Schwarzschild Solution

6. Black Holes

7. Cosmology

8. Gravitational Radiation


LITERATURE (partial):

M. Blau, Lecture Notes on General Relativity, http://www.blau.itp.unibe.ch/newlecturesGR.pdf

G. 't Hooft, Introduction to General Relativity, https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/lectures/genrel_2010.pdf

R. D'Inverno, Introducing Einstein's Relativity, Oxford Univ. Press 1990 
              [auf deutsch: Einführung in die Relativitätstheorie, Wiley-VCH 2009]

S. Carroll, Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019

S. Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology, Wiley 1972