Astr/Phys 469/569: Introduction to General Relativity

Handouts

August 26:
Syllabus
August 28:
The original Michelson & Morley Paper
Violations of Relativity, by A. Kostelecky, Scientific American, 2005
September 2:
Student Understanding of Time in Special Relativity, Scherr et al. 2002, physics:0207109
The Challenge of Changing Deeply-Held Student Beliefs about the Relativity of Simultaneity, Scherr et al. 2002, physics:0207081
September 9:
First Observation of the GZK Suppression, Abbasi et al. 2008, PRL 100,101101
September 11:
Faster than light: an interesting page on what this statement really means
September 16:
The Confrontation Between General Relativity and Experiment by C. M. Will, Living Reviews in Relativity, 2006, 3, only section 2
September 23:
Look here for lecture notes. Also in PS
September 25:
Look here for lecture notes. Also in PS
September 30:
Pages 1-17 of Chapter 3 in Sean Carroll's Lecture Notes that you can fine here
October 2:
Pages 20-33 of Chapter 3 in Sean Carroll's Lecture Notes that you can fine here
October 9:
Derivation of the Schwarzschild spacetime from Compact Stars, by N. Glendenning, 2nd ed.: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
October 14:
Proof of Birkhoff's Theorem from Gravitation, by Misner, Thorne, & Wheeler, 32.2: Page1, Page2
See Barstow et al. 2005, MNRAS, 362, 1134 for a measurement of the gravitational redshift from a white dwarf.
See Cottam et al. 2002, Nature, 420, 51 for a measurement of the gravitational redshift from a neutron star.
October 16:
An animation of the perihelion precesion of Mercury.
October 21:
Hot Spots on Neutron Stars, by Pechenick et al. 1983, ApJ, 374, 846
October 23:
A web application for understanding Gravitational Lensing
Lectures on Gravitational Lensing, by Narayan, R., Bartelmann, M., 1996, arXiv:astro-ph/9606001
Gravitational Microlensing in the Local Group, by Paczynski, B., 1996, ARAA 34, 419
October 28:
Slides from class
Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law Adelberger et al. 2003, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci, 53, 77
The PPN Formalism from Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics by C. Will: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7
The Confrontation Between General Relativity and Experiment by C. M. Will, Living Reviews in Relativity, 2006, 3, only section 3
November 4:
Look here for the slides from the class
November 6:
The river model of black holes by Hamilton & Lisle 2008, American Journal of Physics, 76, 519
November 18:
Rotating Black Holes: Locally Nonrotating Frames, Energy Extraction, and Scalar Synchrotron Radiation, by Bardeen, Press, Teukolsky, 1972, ApJ, 178, 347
Gravitational Collapse and Cosmic Censorship, by R. Wald, 1997, gr-qc/9710068
November 20:
The Basics of Gravitational Wave Theory by Flanagan & Hughes, New J. Phys. 2005, 7, 204
November 25:
Slides from class
December 2:
Lecture Notes by Sean Carroll, pages 1-8
December 9:
Slides from class
A No Nonsense Intro to GR by Sean Carroll

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