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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