PX436 notes
I will put PDF files of my lecture notes (i.e. those I use in lectures) here. Note that I've inherited these from the previous lecturer (Tom Marsh), but I'll be following the same structure/content, so the notes remain valid. Since they are the ones I use in lectures they are very brief and no substitute for books. Please inform me asap if you spot an error. This is yet another reason for looking at books which have been checked by editors and in some cases by many readers following years of use.
If you regularly download these, please try to do so as late as possible because I may (and quite likely will) change them at any time; I will try to flag up any such changes.
Here is a file of all the notes, and here they are, chapter by chapter:
| Lecture 1 | Introduction |
| Lecture 2 | First lecture summarising special relativity |
| Lecture 3 | Second special relativity lecture |
| Lecture 4 | Vectors and one-forms. |
| Lecture 5 | Tensors. |
| Lecture 6 | Stress-energy tensor. |
| Lecture 7 | Generalised coordinates. |
| Lecture 8 | Metrics. |
| Lecture 9 | The connection. |
| Lecture 10 | Parallel transport. |
| Lecture 11 | Geodesics. |
| Lecture 12 | Curvature. |
| Lecture 13 | Einstein's field equations. |
| Lecture 14 | Schwarzschild geometry. |
| Lecture 15 | Schwarzschild equations of motion. |
| Lecture 16 | Schwarzschild orbits (lecture slides pdf) |
| Lecture 17 | Precession and photon orbits. |
| Lecture 18 | Deflection of light. |
| Lecture 19 | Schwarzschild black-holes. |
| Lecture 20 | FRW metric. |
| Lecture 21 | Dynamics of the Universe. |
| Lecture 22 | Cosmological distances. |
| Lecture 23 | Linear GR. |
| Lecture 24 | Gravitational waves. |
| Lecture 25 | Detecting gravitational waves. (lecture slides) |
| Lecture 26 | Observational Evidence for GR. (lecture slides) |
That's all folks!
