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Lecturer:
Junji Jia (贾俊基) Office: Room 5-518, School of Physical Science and Technology Email: 
Class location: Room 509, Fifth Teaching Building, District One Class hours: Monday 14:05-16:30, Sep 13-Dec 20, 2021 课程群: 20**武汉大学广义相对论课程群 Teaching Assistants: Z-H Li (李宗海) Office: Room D-513, School of Physical Science and Technology, New building Email: newton-einstein@whu.edu.cn Prerequisite: Familiarity with Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity is necessary; Field Theory and Differential Geometry background will be very beneficial to the course; If you have any question, please send an email to me before the course starts. Textbooks: Robert M. Wald, General relativity, University of Chicago press, 1984. Sean. M. Carroll, Spacetime and Geometry, Addison-Wesley, 2003. These books can be borrowed from the library or bought from online retailers. The lecturing notes will also be made available on the course webpage. Evaluation: 4-6 assignments (total 40%), 1 written project (30%) and 1 final exam (30%) One assignment after each two to three weeks; For the project, please see the project description for more details. Final exam is schedule two weeks after the last lecture. References: David Kay, Schaums Outline of Tensor Calculus, McGraw-Hill, 2011. Eric Poisson, An advanced course in general relativity, link here. Three Chinese books: Chen Bin, General relativity, Peking University Press, ISBN: 9787301297162 Liu Liao, General relativity, Higher Education Press, ISBN: 9787040144307 Liang Canbin, Zhou Bin, Differential geometry and general relativity, Science Press, ISBN: (Vol. 1) 9787030164605; (Vol. 2) 9787030240576; (Vol. 3) 9787030252319 ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ Lecture notes: 2018 version: 2018 lecture notes 2019 version: 2019 lecture notes 2019 lecture notes (typeset version) Lecture Videos: 2018 version: Class1_1, video Class1_2, video Class3, video 2019 version: Class1, video Class2, video Class3, video Class4, video Class5, video 2020 version: Class1, video Class2, video Class3, video Class5, video Class6, video Class8, video Class10, video Class11, video Class12, video Class13, video Class14, video Class16, video Class18.1, video Class18.2, video Homeworks: ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ Project: You can find topics here. The evaluation of your performance in this course requires that you do a project. Requirements of the project: ⋆ The main content of the project must be related to this course but must be new materials that are not taught in the class. The project contains a written part and an oral presentation part. ⋆ You can choose your own topic or you will be given one. You should hand in your project title by the 7th week of the semester. Please discuss your project with the teacher to confirm that it is suitable. ⋆ You can team up to write the project with maximally 3 persons in one team. The written part should be at least 4500 words if there are three members in the team; otherwise, the minimum is 3000 words. Please typeset your writting using A4 or letter sized paper with regular sized font. The written part should be of a scientific style, usually containing introduction or background materials, main sections (which might include different subsections), and a conclusion or discussion part. References should also be included. ⋆ You need to hand in at least 2 pages of your writing (either first 2 pages or an outline of your entire project) by the 10th week of the classes. The full written project should be handed in electronically through email before the final exam date. ⋆ Your oral presentation is arranged the second day after the final exam. The presentation time for each team will be less than 20 minutes, including 5 minute Q&A. You can use either a projector (provided) or the blackboard to give your oral presentation. It should be given in a clear and well organized way. Warning: The University Academic Moral Regulation requires that you must not conduct cheating on assignments, examinations, plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty. These dishonesty behaviors include but are not limited to: Copying others work as if they are your own; Not properly acknowledge others work; Using others work as the main content of your work. Plagiarism is a very serious offense. The University has severe punishment for plagiarism including lowering your grade, failing your course, suspension of your study or even expulsion from the university. By submitting your work to the professor, you acknowledge that you know these regulations and these punishments. Your work will always be checked through several ways including textual comparison online and with your classmates. Please do not conduct plagiarism because you will most likely be caught if you do so. ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ Supporting materials: Lecture notes on General Relativity by Sean Carroll. Maple file to help calculations in GR. Mathematica files to help calculations in GR. Potential topics for your project. |