Office: La Tourette 214
Phone: (815) 753-6467
email:
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30 to 11:30. (Or, as always, whenever you can find me, which means usually not Thursday afternoons).
Class meetings: (NOTE CHANGE) M,W,F 9:00-9:50, 227 La Tourette
Textbook:
Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity
Author: Sean M. Carroll
ISBN-13: 9780805387322
Publisher: Pearson Addison-Wesley
Graduate catalog description: Special relativity on a flat space-time metric, manifolds and curvature, Einstein's equation, Schwarzschild solution.
Grading: 100% based on homework sets, assigned approximately weekly.
The course syllabus is here.
Homework #1 assignment. (due Friday September 2, 2011).
Homework #2 assignment. (due Wednesday September 14, 2011).
Homework #3 assignment. (due Wednesday September 21, 2011).
Homework #4 assignment. (due Wednesday September 28, 2011).
Homework #5 assignment. (due Friday October 7, 2011).
Homework #6 assignment. (due Monday October 17, 2011).
Homework #7 assignment. (due Friday November 4, 2011).
Homework #8 assignment. (due Friday November 14, 2011).
Homework #9 assignment. (due Friday December 2, 2011).