Teaching: Exercises for General Relativity and Cosmology

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exercises No. 52448

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Exercises:

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Literature

• Steven Weinberg: Gravitation and Cosmology, Wiley 1972
  
• Torsten Fliessbach: Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag
• L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifschitz: Lehrbuch der Theoretischen Physik II: Klassische Feldtheorie, Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1976
• Robert M. Wald: General Relativity, The University of Chicago Press 1984
• Michael Berry: Kosmologie und Gravitation, Teubner 1989
• Hermann Weyl: Raum. Zeit. Materie., Springer 1988

Lecturer

Prof. Dr. John Schliemann

Exercise sheets

• Sheet 0
• Sheet 1
• Sheet 2
• Sheet 3
• Sheet 4
• Sheet 5 (V2)
• Sheet 6
• Sheet 7
• Sheet 8
• Sheet 9
• Sheet 10
• Sheet 11, addendum
• Sheet 12

Add-Ons

• Christoffel symbols

Simple example of calculation of Christoffel symbols using IPython. Source file: Christoffel.py

• Gravitational Lensing (Sheet 9)

Examples for a calculation of lensing by a point mass:
- Solution by Stephan Lochner
- ART_Lensing.py
- Using Mathematica, see e.g. this demonstration.