Relativitätstheorie

Vorlesung "Relatitivätstheorie"

Prof. Dr. Dominik Neuenfeld

Time and Location

• Vorlesung Mo 8-10 Uhr, HS 5 (Nat. wiss. HS-Bau), Mi 8-9 Uhr, HS 5 (Nat. wiss. HS-Bau)
• Übung Mi 9-10 Uhr, HS 5 (Nat. wiss. HS-Bau)

Topics

• Incompatibility of Special Relativity with Gravitation
• Curved Spacetime (Riemannian Geometry)
• Particle Motion in Curved Spacetime
• Einstein's equations
• Gravitational Waves
• Black Holes
• Cosmology
• Depending on Time: Advanced Topics (e.g. First Order Formalism and Differential Forms, Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime)

 

Literature

• Lecture notes (on WueCampus)
• Books:
  • Spacetime and Geometry; Carroll
  • General Relativity; Wald
  • Gravitation; Misner, Thorne, Wheeler