general relativity

[10.02.2017]

You can pick up your certificate.

[31.01.2017]

The bonus sheet has been uploaded.

[31.01.2017]

There is an extra (bonus) sheet which will be uploaded later today.

[24.01.2017]

The last exercise sheet has been uploaded.

[17.01.2017]

The 11th exercise sheet has been uploaded.

[17.01.2017]

The Monday and Wednesday lectures will be held in the seminar room 10.01 starting tomorrow.

[10.01.2017]

The 10th exercise sheet has been uploaded.

[09.01.2017]

Starting next week the Monday lectures will be held in the seminar room 10.1 in the building 30.23.

[27.12.2016]

The 9th exercise sheet has been added.

[21.12.2016]

The 9th exercise sheet will be online next week on Tuesday.

[13.12.2016]

The eighth exercise sheet has been added.

[06.12.2016]

The seventh exercise sheet has been added.

[30.11.2016]

The total number of points for the 12 exercise sheets will be 144. Thus, you have to get at least 72 points to obtain the certificate. It also means that each exercise sheet costs 12 points at most.

[22.11.2016]

The fifth exercise sheet has been added.

[15.11.2016]

The fourth exercise sheet has been added.

[08.11.2016]

The third exercise sheet has been added.

[25.10.2016]

The second exercise sheet has been added. Since next Tuesday, 01.11.2016 is an official holiday (Allerheiligen), you must hand in your solutions to this exercise sheet on Monday, 07.11.2016.

[18.10.2016]

The first exercise sheet has been added.

[12.10.2016]

The exercise sheets are planned to appear every Tuesday starting from next week.

[11.10.2016]

A table with the lecture dates has been added. "Yes" means the lecture is going to be held, whereas "No" means no lecture at that date.

[29.09.2016]

This is devoted to the lecture course "General Relativity I" held at KIT in the winter semester 2016/2017. The main goal of the course is to give an introduction into General Relativity.

[28.09.2016]

This web-site is still under construction...

Lecturer:	Prof. Dr. Frans R. Klinkhamer
Assistant:	Dr. Viacheslav Emelyanov (, ) & Dr. José Queiruga ()
Lecture time:	Mondays 11:30 - 13:00 and Wednesdays 11:30 - 13:00
	The first lecture is scheduled for 17.10.2016.
Lecture place:	Seminar room 10.01 in the building 30.23

Tutor:	Dr. Viacheslav Emelyanov (, )
Tutorial time:	Tuesdays 15:45 - 17:15
	The first exercise is sheduled for 18.10.2016.
Tutorial place:	Seminar room 12.01 in the building 30.23
Handing-in:	Solutions to the exercise sheets need to be handed in on Mondays at 11:00 o'clock sharp to the mailbox on the ground floor of 30.23. If you do that later, your solution sheets will be not accepted. You do not need to hand in the 0th exercise sheet as we are going merely to discuss that during our first meeting.

	Handing-in	Discussion	Exercise Sheet
0		18.10.2016	ExSh0
1	24.10.2016	25.10.2016	ExSh1
2	07.11.2016	08.11.2016	ExSh2
3	14.11.2016	15.11.2016	ExSh3
4	21.11.2016	22.11.2016	ExSh4
5	28.11.2016	29.11.2016	ExSh5
6	05.12.2016	06.12.2016	ExSh6
7	12.12.2016	13.12.2016	ExSh7
8	19.12.2016	20.12.2016	ExSh8
9	09.01.2017	10.01.2017	ExSh9
10	16.01.2017	17.01.2017	ExSh10
11	23.01.2017	24.01.2017	ExSh11
12	30.01.2017	31.01.2017	ExSh12
13	06.02.2017	07.02.2017	ExSh13

C. Misner et.al.	Gravitation (W.H. Freeman and Co., 1973)
B. Schutz	A First Course in General Relativity (2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2009)
R. Wald	General Relativity (University of Chicago Press, 1984)
S. Weinberg	Gravitation and Cosmology (J. Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1972)

Lecture Dates	Monday	Wednesday
17.10.2016 & 19.10.2016	Yes	No
24.10.2016 & 26.10.2016	Yes	Yes
31.10.2016 & 02.11.2016	Yes	Yes
07.11.2016 & 09.11.2016	No	Yes
14.11.2016 & 16.11.2016	No	Yes
21.11.2016 & 23.11.2016	Yes	Yes
28.11.2016 & 30.11.2016	Yes	Yes
05.12.2016 & 07.12.2016	No	Yes
12.12.2016 & 14.12.2016	Yes	Yes
19.12.2016 & 21.12.2016	Yes	Yes
09.01.2017 & 11.01.2017	Yes	No
16.01.2017 & 18.01.2017	Yes	Yes
23.01.2017 & 25.01.2017	Yes	Yes
30.01.2017 & 01.02.2017	Yes	No
06.02.2017 & 08.02.2017	Yes	No