Organizational details

• M.Sc. Physics core course (8 ECTS)
• https://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~amendola/gr-ss2021.html - Course homepage on Prof. Amendola’s personal website
• Assignment details :
  • Need 50% correct on them in order to be eligible for the exam in July
  • Can hand them in groups of two (Highly recommended)

Literature

Personal recommendations

• Lecture notes on GR - David Tong : http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/g r.html ****
• General relativity : An introduction for physicists - Hobson
• Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology - Lambourne

Recommendations from Prof. Amendola’s lecture notes

• A first course in General relativity - Bernard Schutz
• Lecture notes on GR - Sean Carroll : https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9712019.pdf

Tutorials

Handouts

• Handout 1 : Introduction to Group III (6 April 2021)
• Handout 2 : Preparation tips for GR (6 April 2021)

Tutorial plan

1. Friday, 16 April 2021, (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM)

   • Organizational matters
   • Literature
   • GR in a nutshell
   • Crash course : Geodesic equation

   Slides-Annotated, Slides-Handout, Slides-Article

2. Tuesday, 20 April 2021, (11:00 AM- 12:45 PM)

   • Minkowski metric and light clock gedanken experiment
   • Lorentz transformation
   • 4-vectors

   Slides-Handout, Slides-Article

3. Tuesday, 27 April 2021, (11:00 AM - 12:45 PM)

   • Solved exercise 1.1 (Doppler effect in SR using kinematics)
   • Derivation of the Geodesic equation in curved space

   Slides-Handwritten