| Univ. Bremen Prof. Dr. C. Lämmerzahl, PD Dr. E. Hackmann, PD Dr. V. Perlick, Dr. D. Philipp | General Relativity (S3, elective, 9 ECTS) |
| Learning Outcomes: | Students get insight into modern aspects and applications of General Relativity. |
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| Prerequisites | Lecture on General Relativity is beneficial |
| Program | The formalism of General Relativity will be further worked out with the following topics – theory of congruences, geodesic deviation, Raychaudhury equation, evolution laws of kinematical quantities – dynamics of extended particles – the physics of stationary space-times, gravitational potentials, multipole expansion – definition of mass – ppN formalism – spinors and the Dirac equation in curved Space-time |
| Description of how the course is conducted | – Contact hours (lecture + exercise): 56 h (4 h x 14 weeks) – Preparation, learning, exercises: 56 h (4 h x 14 weeks) – Preparation for exam: 68 h Total working hours: 180 h |
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| Description of the evaluation methods | Written exam, oral exam, or study work |
| Adopted Textbooks | – Ch. W. Misner, K. S. Thorne, and J.A. Wheeler: Gravitation, Freeman and Co., San Francisco 1973 – Robert M. Wald: General Relativity, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1984. – J. Ehlers: Beiträge zur relativistischen Kinematik kontinuierlicher Medien, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, 1961. |
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