UnivIS
Information system of Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg © Config eG 
FAU Logo
  Collection/class schedule    module collection Home  |  Legal Matters  |  Contact  |  Help    
search:      semester:   
 
 Layout
 
printable version

 
 
 Also in UnivIS
 
course list

lecture directory

 
 
events calendar

job offers

furniture and equipment offers

 
 

  General Relativity 1 (PW ART-1)

Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Hanno Sahlmann

Details
Vorlesung
4 cred.h, ECTS studies, ECTS credits: 10, Sprache Englisch, Grade is determined by oral exam at the end of the course. Date to be determined. Grades can be improved by 0,3 points if at least 50% of the homework exercises are successfully worked through.
Time and place: Mon 10:00 - 12:00, HF; Tue 14:00 - 16:00, HF

Fields of study
WF Ph-MA ab 1 (ECTS-Credits: 10)

Contents
  • Newtonian gravity
  • manifolds and tensor fields

  • elements of Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry

  • Einstein's field equations

  • weak field limit

  • black holes and singularities

  • a glimpse beyond Einstein

Recommended literature
Wald: General relativity, University of Chicago Press
Weinberg: Principles and applications of the general theory of relativity, Wiley

ECTS information:
Credits: 10

Additional information
Expected participants: 20, Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 30

Assigned lectures
AG: Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Vorlesung General Relativity I
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Hanno Sahlmann
Time and place: Tue 9:00 - 13:00, room tbd
UE: General Relativity 1 (Exercise class)
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Hanno Sahlmann, Tutoren
Time and place: Fri, Wed 9:00 - 12:00, SRTL (307) (außer Fri 17.4.2015, Wed 1.7.2015, Fri 3.7.2015, Wed 8.7.2015, Fri 10.7.2015, Wed 15.7.2015, Fri 17.7.2015); single appointment on 1.7.2015 9:00 - 12:00, SR 01.332; single appointment on 3.7.2015 9:00 - 12:00, SR 02.779; single appointment on 8.7.2015 9:00 - 12:00, SR 01.332; single appointment on 10.7.2015 9:00 - 12:00, SR 02.779; single appointment on 15.7.2015 9:00 - 12:00, SR 01.332; single appointment on 17.7.2015 9:00 - 12:00, SR 02.779

Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
Startsemester SS 2015:
Integrierter Kurs 3: General Relativity and Cosmology (IK-3)
Physikalisches Wahlfach: General Relativity 1 (PW-10)

Department: Professur für Theoretische Physik (Prof. Dr. Sahlmann)
UnivIS is a product of Config eG, Buckenhof