Class Schedule
PHZ-4601/5606 Special and General Theories of Relativity A
Fall 2007

week Material Comments
8/27 - 8/31 Chapters 1 and 2 Introduction to Special Relativity
9/5 - 9/7 Chapter 2 SR kinematics and the geometry of space-time
9/10 - 9/14 Chapter 3 Principle of Equivalence
9/17 - 9/21 Chapter 4 Metric description of curved space
9/24 - 9/28 Chapter 5 GR as a geometric theory of gravity - I
10/1 - 10/5 Chapter 6 Schwarzschild solution to GR
10/8 - 10/12 Chapter 7 Intro to cosmology
10/15 - 10/19 Chapter 8 Expanding Universe and thermal relics
10/22 - 10/26 Chapters 8 and 9 Inflation and the accelerating universe
10/29 - 11/2 Chapters 9 and 10 Tensors in SR
11/5 - 11/9 Chapters 10 and 11 Tensors in GR
11/14 - 11/16 Chapters 11 and 12 GR as a geometric theory of gravity - II
11/19 - 11/21 Chapter 12 continued
11/26 - 11/30 Chapters 12 and 13 Gravitational radiation
12/3 - 12/7 Chapter 13 continued

This is an ambitious and approximate schedule which will be modified as needed throughout the semester.