General Relativity (SS17)

• The Retake Exam will take place on the 18.09.2017 from 10:00 to 13:00 in the Lecture Hall 1, Physics Institute.
  

• The last tutorial for groups 2 & 4 will be held on the 07.07. at 14:00 <-> 16:00 in HS I (PI).
  

• The last tutorial for group 1 will be held on the 07.07. at 08:00 <-> 10:00 in the Besprechungsraum (BCTP).
  

• The tutorial on 26.06. of Group 1 will be held on the 29.06. at 12:00 <-> 14:00 in the Seminar room 1, PI 2.005 (together with Group 4).
  

• Due to Corpus Christi, there will be NO tutorial on 15.06.2017.
  

• Due to Pfingsten, there will be NO lectures/tutorials during the week 05.06.2017 <-> 09.06.2017.
  

• Due to Christi Himmelfahrt, the Group 4 tutorial will be shifted to Friday 26.05.2017 and will take place in the BCTP Besprechungsraum from 14:00 to 16:00.
  

• During the days 01.05.2017 and 02.05.2017, there will be NO tutorials.
  

• 1st exam review session: 13.07.2017 from 14:00 to 16:00 in the Seminar Room 2 (BCTP).
  

• The final exam has been fixed to:11.07.2017 from 16:00 to 19:00, Lecture Hall 1, Physics Institute.
  

• Tutorials will start on week 24.04 to 28.04.2017 with presence exercises (check updated info on groups below!).
  

Groups

Group	Day	Time	Place	Tutor
Group 1	Monday	14:15-16:00	Konferenzraum II, PI 1.049 *	Misha Gelenava, mishagelenava@yahoo.com
Group 2	Tuesday	8:15-10:00	U5, Raum 0.021 AVZ I**	Leonardo Rydin, leonardo.rydin@gmail.com
Group 3	Wednesday	14:15-16:00	Besprechungsraum, BCTP	Reza Safari, rezasafari1987@gmail.com
Group 4	Thursday	12:15-14:00	Seminarraum I, PI 2.005***	Mahsa Barzegar, s6mabarz@uni-bonn.de

* except on 01.05. and on 26.06.

** except on 02.05.

*** except on 25.05.

Exercise sheets

Exercise sheets will be handed out on Mondays in the lecture and on this webpage.
They should be returned one week later in the lecture on Monday, unless differently specified.

No	Exercise sheet
0	Special Relativity
1	Tensors and Classical Field TheoryDue 02.05.16.
2	Classical Field Theory IIDue 08.05.16.
3	Topology & ManifoldsDue 15.05.16.
4	GR on the tangent bundleDue 22.05.16.
5	Differential forms & Branes in higher dimensionsDue 29.05.16.
6	Affine connections & the GPS systemDue 12.06.16.
7	EEP & CurvatureDue 19.06.16.
8	Killing vectors & Gravitational redshiftDue 26.06.16.
9	Gravitational wavesDue 03.07.16.
10	Falling into a Black Hole

Requirements for the final exam (on 11.07.2017 from 16:00 to 19:00, Lecture Hall 1, Physics Institute)

In order to be admitted to the final exam the following requirements have to be met:

• Active participation in the tutorials.
• Solutions to the exercises have to be presented at least twice in the tutorials.
• Approx. 50% of the credits from all exercise sheets.

The module description from the syllabus is available here.

Time and Place for the Lectures

Monday 12:15 - 13:00, Lecture Hall 1, PI. & Tuesday 16:15 - 18:00, Lecture Hall 1, PI.

Prerequesites:

Theoretical Physics I amd II, Differential Geometry

Literature

• Sean M. Carroll, ``Lecture notes on General''.
arXiv:gr-qc/9712019, available online here
• Sean M. Carroll, ``Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity''.
(Cummings 2003)
• H. Stephani,``General Relativity''.
(Cambridge University Press)
• S. Weinberg, ``Gravitation and Cosmology''.
(J. Willey & Sons 1972)
• R. M. Wald, ``General Relativity''.
(The University of Chicago Press)
• M. Nakahara, ``Geometry, topology and physics''.
Covers differential geometry aspects of Lie groups. Generally recommended for every high-energy theorist.

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