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Introduction to Relativity (PHYS431000)

Lecturer: 
Professor Chong-Sun Chu   
Phone: +886 3 5731269

office hour: by email appointment

TA:  Jui-Lin Kuo, juilinkuo@gmail.com

Announcements:

midterm will be on 13/11/2017, 3.30-5.30pm.
You can bring an A4 size formula sheet (1 side).

final exam will be on 8/1/2018, 3.30-6.00pm.
 
Past Exams:

2012 1st term mid-term
2012 1st term final

2017 mid term solution

Lectures:
Lectures on Thursday 3:30pm - 6:10 pm, with one 10 minutes break.

A course information page is available here. It will be regularly updated as the lectures go.

Lecture notes in pdf: lec0 lec1 lec2 lec3 lec4 lec5 lec6 lec7 lec8 lec9 lec11
(Don't worry about the numbering of the files. It is from previous year.)
 
Recommened Books:
  1. Bernard Schutz, A First Course in General Relativity (Cambridge University Press; 2 edition, 2009). Main textbook of the course. Pedagogical and accessible introduction to the subject. Good for a fi rst reader.
  2. Steven Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity (John Wiley & Sons 1972). A great book with emphasis on physical perspectives. However non-geometrical and no blackhole.
  3. Robert M. Wald, General Relativity (U Chicago Press 1984). An advanced textbook. Clear and precise, but maybe too formal for a first learner. An authorative reference.
  4. Sean Carroll, Spacetime an Geometry - An Introduction to General Relativity (AddisonWesley, 1st Ed, 2003). An older online version of the book (di fferent is available on the preprint server: http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9712019. Covers some modern developments of the subject.