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  PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity) Spring 2008: Notes

Mathematica notebooks

• A modified version of Neil Ashby's metric.nb
• tetrad.nb

My Notes

1. Special Relativity
2. Fundamentals of General Relativity
3. Black Holes
4. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Metric
5. General Relativity with Tetrads
6. General Relativistic Perturbation Theory

Other People's Notes

• Matthias Blau's Lecture Notes on General Relativity. Highly readable. The notes do not cover special relativity, and do not get as far as rotating black holes (the Kerr metric). However, Blau does an incomparable job of exploring the various subtle features of general relativity from many complementary points of view. Excellent fare for the newcomer to general relativity.

• Matt Visser's Math 464: Notes on Differential Geometry. Again, highly readable, with a physicist's perspective clarifying the mathematics. Fills in much of the mathematical context that is missing from my own notes and lectures.

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