Astr/Phys 571: Gravitation

Links

Texts

The recommended text for the course is:
Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity
by J. Hartle; (Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings; 1st edition, 2003).
It is an introductory book on general relativity, which an emphasis on the physics of the gravitational theory and its applications.
The text
Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity
by S. Carroll (Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings; 1st edition, 2003)
provides an in depth study of many of the topics that we will cover. A free, online version of the lecture notes that led to this book can be found here.

Useful Links

Relativity on the World Wide Web is a comprehensive web page with many resources for students and researchers of General Relativity.
Living Reviews in Relativity is a free, refereed journal with review articles that are being regularly updated.

Relativity Research, Observatories, and Space Missions