week | Material | Comments |
8/29 - 9/2 | Chapters 1 and 2 | Introduction to Special Relativity |
9/7 - 9/9 | Chapter 2 | SR - basics |
9/12 - 9/16 | Chapter 3 | SR - geometric formulation |
9/19 - 9/23 | Chapter 4 | Principle of Equivalence |
9/26 - 9/30 | Chapter 5 | Metric description of curved space |
10/3 - 10/7 | Chapter 6 | GR as a geometric theory of gravity - I |
10/10 - 10/14 | Chapter 7 | Spherically symmetric spacetime-Midterm 10/14 |
10/17 - 10/21 | Review exam, start Chapter 8 | Black Holes |
10/24 - 10/28 | Finish Chapter 8 | Black Holes |
10/31 - 11/4 | Chapter 12 | Tensors in SR |
11/7 - 11/9 | Chapter 13 | Tensors in GR |
11/14 - 11/18 | Chapter 13, 14 | Tensors in GR, GR as a geometric theory of gravity |
11/21 | Chapters 14 | GR as a geometric theory of gravity |
11/28 - 12/2 | Chapter 15 | Gravity waves |
12/5 - 12/9 | Chapters 9-11 | Applications in cosmology |