PX436 lecture list
This is the approximate order of lectures and problems classes. Note the number of lectures vs problems classes may slip +/-1 either way and there may be some changes to the topics given here, although they will not be radically different.
The second half of this timetable has changed slightly during the term - note the revised slots for problems classes IV and V.
- Introduction
- Special relativity I
- Special relativity II
- Vectors
- Tensors
- Stress-energy tensor
- Problems class I
- General coordinates
- Metrics
- The connection
- Parallel transport
- Geodesics
- Problems class II
- Curvature
- Einstein's field equations
- Schwarzschild geometry
- Schwarzschild equations of motion
- Schwarzschild orbits + Precession
- Photon orbits and Deflection of Light
- Schwarzschild black holes
- Problems class III
- Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric
- Dynamics of the Universe
- Cosmological distances
- Problems class IV
- Linear GR
- Gravitational waves
- Detecting gravitational waves
- Problems class V
- Summary