29:273: General relativity and cosmology: Assignments
Conventions:
KT: R. Kolb and M. Turner, The Early Universe, Westview, 1990.
HAL: M. Hobson, G. Estathiou and A. Lasenby, General Relativity,
Cambridge 2006.
F: Feynman Lectures on Physics, Addison-Wesley, 1963
(FI)
J: J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, THIRD EDITION, 1998.
(J)
P: P. J. Peebles, Principles of Physical Cosmology, Princeton, 1993.
D: P. A. M. Dirac, General Theory of Relativity, Princeton, 1975.
(Di)
S. Dodelson, Modern Cosmology, Academic Press, 2003. (Dod)
W: S. Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology, Wiley, 1972.
(W)
T: A. Taylor and J. Wheeler, Exploring Black Holes, Addison-Wesley,
2000.
M: C. Misner, K. Thorne and J. Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman, 1973.
O: H. Ohanian and R. Ruffini, Gravitation and Spacetime, Norton, 1994.
L: A. Linde, Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology, Harwood,
1990.
Date
Topic
Jan 16
Readings: FI: chapter 15 (undergraduate review); J: Chapter
11
(graduate review); KT: Ch.. 1 (for an overview); Dir. sections
1-3