Physics 751 -- GENERAL RELATIVITY -- SPRING 2019
Instructor:
Professor S. Martin
Class meetings:
M,W,F 10:00-10:50, 227 La Tourette.
Textbook:
Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity
Graduate catalog description:
Special relativity on a flat space-time metric, manifolds and curvature,
Einstein's equation, Schwarzschild solution.
Grading:
100% based on homework sets, assigned approximately weekly.
The course syllabus is here.
Homework #1 assignment. (due Wednesday, January 23, 2019).
Homework #2 assignment. (due Friday, February 8, 2019).
Homework #3 assignment. (due Friday, February 15, 2019).
Homework #4 assignment. (due Friday, February 22, 2019).
Homework #5 assignment. (due Monday, March 4, 2019).
Homework #6 assignment. (due Monday, March 18, 2019).
Homework #7 assignment. (due Wednesday, March 27, 2019).
Homework #8 assignment. (due Monday, April 8, 2019).
Homework #9 assignment. (due Friday, April 19, 2019).
Homework #10 assignment. (due Friday, April 26, 2019).
Office: La Tourette 214
email: spmartin@niu.edu
Office hours: M,T,W,F, 11:00 to 11:50.
(Or whenever you can find me, which means usually not Thursday
afternoons).
Author: Sean M. Carroll
ISBN-13: 9780805387322
Publisher: Pearson Addison-Wesley