When and Where

• Lectures Monday 13h -- 15h (room 119) (Note Change!)
• Exercises Tuesday 12h -- 13h (room 119)

Lecture Notes

• Lecture Notes

Exercises and Solutions

• Assignments 01
• Solutions 01
• Assignments 02
• Solutions 02
• Assignments 03
• Solutions 03
• Assignments 04
• Solutions 04
• Assignments 05 (Supplement to 05)
• Solutions 05
• Assignments 06
• Solutions 06
• Assignments 07
• Solutions 07
• Assignments 08
• Solutions 08
• Assignments 09: No Exercises. Please prepare Cosmology by looking at sections 14.6-14.7 and 15.1-15.4 of the lecture notes.

Highly Recommended Literature

• Excellent Introductory (Undergraduate) Texts


• N.M.J. Woodhouse: General Relativity
• J.B. Hartle: Gravity, An introduction to Einstein's General Relativity


• Elegant Modern Slightly More Advanced Books


• R.M. Wald: General Relativity
• S. Carroll: Spacetime and Geometry, an Introduction to General Relativity


• Classics


• C.W. Misner, K.S. Thorne, J.A. Wheeler: Gravitation
• S. Weinberg: Gravitation and Cosmology


• Other Personal Favourites


• R.U. Sexl, H.K. Urbantke: Gravitation und Kosmologie
• N. Straumann: General Relativity
• S.W. Hawking, G.F.R. Ellis: The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
• E. Poisson: A Relativist's Toolkit

GR Lectures Notes on the WWW and related Online Resources

• GR Lecture Notes: General


• Don Marolf: Notes on Relativity and Cosmology
• Gerard 't Hooft: Introduction to General Relativity
• Gary Gibbons: General Relativity
• Sean Carroll: Lecture Notes on General Relativity [see also the links at the bottom of that page]


• GR Lecture Notes: Black Holes


• Gerard 't Hooft: Introduction to the Theory of Black Holes
• Paul Townsend: Black Holes
• See also
• J.P. Luminet: Black Holes : A General Introduction
• S.A. Hughes: Trust but verify: The case for astrophysical black holes
• A. Mueller: Experimental Evidence of Black Holes
• D. Christodoulou: The Formation of Black Holes in General Relativity (594(!) pages, mathematical general relativity)


• GR Lecture Notes: Cosmology


• Mark Trodden, Sean Carroll: TASI Lectures: Introduction to Cosmology


• Other Useful Online Resources


• R. Wald: Teaching General Relativity
• Sean Carroll's No-Nonsense Introduction to General Relativity
• John Baez: the General Relativity Tutorial
• Visualisierung in der Relativitätstheorie (Uni Stuttgart), Studying null and time-like geodesics in the classroom
• Usenet Physics FAQ
• Einstein for Everyone (J.D. Norton)
• Einstein Archives Online
• RelativityBook.com Resources
• Picturing Black Holes (a nice introduction to Penrose diagrams, by J.D. Norton)
• Terence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder (pdf-file)
• Terence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder (video of public lecture on youtube)
• Visualisation of Parallel Transport on the 2-Sphere (java applet)
• Gerard 't Hooft: Strange Misconceptions of General Relativity
• Wie man die Raumzeit krümmt
• Teil I
• Teil II
• TeilIII
• Teil IV
• Teil V
• Teil VI


• Is our Universe a Black Hole? NO And since I get asked this question again and again (as if there weren't more interesting questions), usually by people who understand neither cosmology nor black holes, here are some links:


• Answer from the Physics FAQ: Is the Big Bang a Black Hole?
• Answer from Cosmic Variance
• Answer from Lubos Motl
• And another one
• arXiv:1001.4795: Through the Looking Glass: Why the Cosmic Horizon is not a horizon (a more detailed and technical account)


• Important Advice (from Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft):


• Gerard 't Hooft: How to become a good theoretical physicist
• Gerard 't Hooft: How to become a bad theoretical physicist

Contact

• Matthias Blau, Office 220a
• Blaise Rollier, Office 219