<< Cosmo.WebHome %TOC% ---- ---+ draft of possible dates/topics of SR GR lectures summer 2011 *Warning* the actual speed of the course depends on the speed of preparing sufficiently pedagogical pdf slides and wims exercises. Go back to SRandGR to see the progress of these materials. * SR (=STW): WikipediaEn:Minkowski_space 110215, 110222, 110301, 110308 * WikipediaEn:World_line * GR (=OTW): WikipediaEn:General_relativity * Concepts: * WikipediaEn:Riemannian_geometry (and pseudo-Riemannian geometry) * 110329 * 110405 * 110510 coordinate basis, gradient of vector field, Christoffel symbols * 110517 othonormal bases, tetrads, commutators, connection * 110524 parallel transport, geodesics, Killing vector field * 110531 Riemann tensor, curvature, Ricci identity, Ricci tensor, Einstein tensor * WikipediaEn:Stress–energy_tensor * 110607 http://web.mit.edu/edbert/GR/gr2b.pdf * WikipediaEn:Equivalence_principle * Equations: * WikipediaEn:Intermediate_treatment_of_tensors * 110315 * 110322 * WikipediaEn:Einstein_field_equations * 110607 http://web.mit.edu/edbert/GR/gr5.pdf * Exact solutions: * WikipediaEn:Schwarzschild_metric * WikipediaEn:Friedmann-Lema%C3%AEtre-Robertson-Walker_metric * Approximation methods: * WikipediaEn:ADM_formalism * software: * maxima - component tensor packet *ctensor* * in parallel with tensor intro * Cactus - http://cactuscode.org
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