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    BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI

    Hyderabad campus
    2022-23
    Course Handout Date: 20.8.2022

    Course Number : PHY F415


    Course Title : General Theory of Relativity and Cosmology
    Instructor : Sashideep Gutti

    Scope & Objective of the course: The course is designed to provide students
    with a working knowledge of General theory of relativity. The necessary
    mathematical background required to understand the geometric aspects of
    relativity are developed in the course. As part of the applications of general
    relativity, the course includes detailed analysis of black holes, Gravitational
    Wave equations.
    Text Book: A first course in general relativity, Bernard F. Schutz, Cambridge
    University Press, 2009 (South east Asian edition).

    Reference Books/E materials:

    1: An Introduction to Einstein’s general relativity, James B Hartle


    2: General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists. M.P Hobson, G. Efstathiou
    and N. Lasenby, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
    3: Gravitation and Cosmology, Steven Weinberg. Wiley India Pvt Ltd, 2008.
    4: Lecture notes on General Relativity by Sean Carrol (available on the internet).
    5: Gravitation by Miesner Thorne Wheeler, Freeman and Company, 1973.
    6: Gravitation by T. Padmanabhan, Cambridge university Press, 2010

    Course Plan:
    Lecture Learning Topics to be covered Reference
    Number Objectives Chapter/
    Section
    1-7 Special Relativity Spacetime diagrams, Lorentz SCHUTZ
    transformations, Invariant lengths, CHAPTER
    velocity additions. 1.
    HOBSON
    CHAPTER
    1
    8-10 Manifolds, Curves, Surfaces, Geometry on Schutz
    Coordinates Manifolds, Lengths, Volumes chapter 2,
    Hobson
    chapter 2
    11-15 Tensor Analysis Tensors, Metric, One forms, Raising Schutz ,
    and lowering the indicies Hobson,
    chapter
    3,4
    16-17 Energy Fluids, Dust, Perfect fluids, Schutz
    momentum tensor Interpretation of EM tensor chapter 4,
    and perfect fluids Hobson
    chapter 6
    18-19 Preface to Gravitation and Curvature, Schutz
    curvature Christoffel symbols, non coordinate chapter 5
    basis
    20-22 Curved manifolds Differentiable manifolds, Schutz
    and differential Riemannian manifolds, Covariant chapter 6
    geometry derivative, Parallel Transport,
    Curvature Tensor, Bianchi
    Identities
    23-25 Physics of Curved Differential geometry to gravity, Schutz
    space Conserved Quantities chapter 7
    26-27 Einstein field Einstein equations motivation and Schutz
    equations derivation chapter 8
    28 Schwarzschild Spherically symmetric solutions, Schutz
    solution general and static. Derivation of chapter
    Schwarzschild metric, Chapter
    10 section
    10.1 and
    10.2,
    Chapter
    11
    19-35 Black Holes and Motion of geodesics in spherically Schutz
    Schwarzschild symmetric spacetimes, Behavior of chapter 11
    geometry coordinates near event horizon,
    Region inside the black hole,
    Coordinate systems, Formation of
    black holes, Kerr blackhole and
    charged black hole.
    36-40 Gravitational Homogeneous and Isotropic Schutz
    Waves Universe, Friedmann equations, chapter 12
    Positive and Negative cosmological
    constants. Dark Matter , Dark
    Energy

    Evaluation Scheme:
    EC Evaluatio Duration Weightag Date, Time Remarks
    No. n e
    Compone (%)
    nt
    1. Assignment 15 Open book
    1
    2. Assignment 15 Open Book
    2
    3 Midsem 90 Min 30 Open book
    4 Comp. 3Hours 40 Open Book
    Exam

    Chamber Consultation Hour: To be announced.


    Notices: Will be displayed in CMS.

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    Make-up Policy: It is applicable to the following two cases and it is permissible on
    production
    of evidential documents.
    (i) Debilitating illness.
    Academic Honesty and Integrity Policy: Academic honesty and integrity are to be maintained by
    all the students throughout the semester and no type of academic dishonesty is acceptable.

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