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    This document is the syllabus for an astrophysics course on general relativity taught in 2011. It outlines the topics that will be covered in each class, including introductions to Einstein and Maxwell's theories, tensors, the metric tensor, geodesic equation, Riemann curvature tensor, field equations, Schwarzschild black holes, gravitational waves, rotating black holes, Hawking radiation, Friedmann models of the expanding universe, dark energy, and questions around time travel and whether the universe can be its own mother. Required reading is listed for each topic from the textbooks The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and Edwin Taylor and Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler.

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    This document is the syllabus for an astrophysics course on general relativity taught in 2011. It outlines the topics that will be covered in each class, including introductions to Einstein and Maxwell's theories, tensors, the metric tensor, geodesic equation, Riemann curvature tensor, field equations, Schwarzschild black holes, gravitational waves, rotating black holes, Hawking radiation, Friedmann models of the expanding universe, dark energy, and questions around time travel and whether the universe can be its own mother. Required reading is listed for each topic from the textbooks The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and Edwin Taylor and Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler.

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    ASTRO 301 GENERAL RELATIVITY 2011

    J. Richard Gott (jrg@astro.princeton.edu) Oce Hours after each class T.A. Colin Hill (jch@astro.princeton.edu, Rm 12) Oce Hours Tuesday 8-10 pm, Rm 33
    SYLLABUS Sept. 19 Introduction Newton and Einstein Sept. 21 Einstein and Maxwell TTEU 1-44 Sept. 26 Space-time diagrams & Lorentz transforms TTEU 45-60, W 25-34 Sept. 28 Tensors Vectors and 1-forms MTW 48-59, W 35-41 Oct. 3 Tensors of arbitrary rank Stress-Energy Tensor MTW 137-142, W 93-98 Oct. 5 The metric tensor MTW 305-312 Oct. 10 Electromagnetic Field tensor MTW 71-81 Oct. 12 The Geodesic equation MTW 207-214, W 67-79, 103-106, 124-127 Oct. 17 The Riemann Curvature Tensor MTW 29-44, 218-222, 131-146 Oct. 19 Field Equations TTEU 85-90, W 146-149, 151-155, 185-201 Oct. 24 Schwarzschild Black Hole MTW 609-615, 819-826 Oct. 26 Midterm Fall Break Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. 7 Midterm solutions 9 Gravitational Waves 14 Black Hole interior (Kruskal) 16 Rotating black hole 21 Hawking radiation 23 Flatland and single string Thanksgiving Break Nov. Nov. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. 28 Time travel 30 Friedmann Big Bang 5 Big Bang evolving 7 De Sitter space and Ination 12 Dark Energy and the accelerating Universe 14 Can the Universe be its own Mother? TTEU 99-110, 118-143, MTW TTEU 143-165, MTW TTEU 131-172, MTW TTEU TTEU 180-199, 250-255 713-726 728-742 742-762 172-180 253-261

    TTEU 110-118, MTW 162-176, 833-841 MTW 878-883, 916-933, TTEU 115-118 TTEU 251-253 TTEU 92-98

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