General Relativity

Jan de Boer

First class: Thursday September 4

Last class: Thursday December 4

Question session: Thursday December 11

Written Exam: Thursday December 18 (10.15-13.15, room W3.077)

lecture times: Thurdays 10.15-13.00

room: W3.077

credits: 6EC



This course consists of a basic introduction to general relativity. The course will not follow any specific book, nor will there be very extensive lecture notes, but a significant part of the course is close in spirit and content to the material covered in the lecture notes of Sean Carroll, see the third link below. Below I keep track of the various topics covered each week; using books if necessary, and the astonishing amount of material available on the web, it shouldn't be to hard to find additional background material. Two books worth mentioning are There are several lecture notes available on the web, such as (list taken from Sean Carroll's webpage) Other useful general relativity links are (again taken from Sean Carroll's webpage) The course will contain various exercises. These can be handed in starting with the exercises from October 9. The exercises are contained in the notes below.