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---+ Special and General Relativity - year IV
[[https://usosweb.umk.pl/kontroler.php?_action=actionx:katalog2/przedmioty/pokazPrzedmiot(prz_kod:0800-01SOTW-DY)][0800-01SOTW-DY]]

---++ ToDo
   * boud: 
      * wims: exercises

---++ when/where 

   * lecture Tuesdays @16.00 @KRA, starting 15.02.2011
   * tutorial (cwiczen) - proposal: Monday 12-14 @KRA - to be decided/confirmed among participants
   * should also be on astro-official program: [[http://www.astri.uni.torun.pl/~gesicki/rok_4.pdf][rok IV]]  (15.02.2011: no such file) or [[http://www.fizyka.umk.pl/wfaiis/?q=node/56][Wydzial website]] + [[http://www.fizyka.umk.pl/wfaiis/files/IV%20rok%20lato2011.pdf][pdf]]
   * official semester: http://umk.pl/studia/kalendarium/:  ,,od 14 lutego 2011 r. do 30 września 2011 r."
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---++ mailing list

Komunikacja - proszę albo czytaj i poprawiaj regularnie tę stronę twiki, albo zapisz się na grupę dyskusyjną:
http://cosmo.torun.pl/mailman/listinfo/shape-univ/

---++ what
   * lectures: pdf
         * [[%ATTACHURL%/sr_gr_110315.pdf][sr_gr_110315.pdf]]: first lecture: 2011-03-15
   * SR (=STW):   WikipediaEn:Minkowski_space
         * WikipediaEn:World_line
   * GR (=OTW): WikipediaEn:General_relativity
      * Concepts:
         * WikipediaEn:Riemannian_geometry (and pseudo-Riemannian geometry)
         * WikipediaEn:Equivalence_principle
      * Equations: 
         * WikipediaEn:Intermediate_treatment_of_tensors
         * WikipediaEn:Einstein_field_equations
      * Exact solutions: 
         * WikipediaEn:Schwarzschild_metric
         * WikipediaEn:Friedmann-Lema%C3%AEtre-Robertson-Walker_metric
      * Approximation methods:
         * WikipediaEn:ADM_formalism
      * software: 
         * maxima - component tensor packet *ctensor*
         * Cactus - http://cactuscode.org

---+++ summary of modern cosmology
   * AstroPh:0602280 - George Ellis - _Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology_ - this is a proper scientific approach, i.e. serious philosophy explained in simple (scientific) words

---+++ online intros to cosmology
   * http://theory.physics.helsinki.fi/~cosmology/

---+++ wims - wersja online
   * http://cosmo.torun.pl/wims -> *students' area*
   * Dlaczego coś jak wims? http://wims.unice.fr/paper/pqt.pdf - a paper explaining the principle of tests with open-question sets. WIMS can be used to implement this principle.
   * WimsDyskusja

---++++ traditional exercises
   * John Peacock has some nice online exercises: http://www.roe.ac.uk/~jap/teaching/cos5.html

---++ how

---++ who
   * _się dodaj do listy, np <nowiki>Main.PiotrNowak</nowiki>_
   * Main.BoudRoukema (lecturer)


---++ exam or zal ?
   * propozycja - uwagi, protesty do końca czwartym tygodniu zajęć ?
      * 4 points from relativity exercises on http://cosmo.torun.pl/wims 
      * 1 point 
         * praca wystarczająca oryginalna aby zostać znacząca część publikacji, np w [[http://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381][CQG]] lub [[http://www.springerlink.com/content/101151/][GRG]]
   * _(stary: MonographPropozycjaEgzamin)_

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Topic revision: r9 - 15 Feb 2011, BoudRoukema

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