PHY484S

Relativity Theory II (2020-21) -- PHY484S/1484S

Calendar of events

Classes are held on Mondays and Thursdays from 10:10-11:00am on Zoom.
Lectures begin on the first day of the semester M11Jan (Monday 11th January 2021), and will not be held in Reading Week.
Office hours will be held on Mondays from 15:10-16:00 using the same Zoom coordinates as lectures. Special office hours will also be held on the Fridays before the Monday HW2, HW3, and HW4 due dates. HW1 will be due on a Thursday, so the regular Monday office hour should suffice for late-ish questions about that.

Week	Date	Topic	Work given/due
1	M11Jan	Singularity theorems	Read all course webpages
	R14Jan	FRW cosmology 1
2	M18Jan	FRW cosmology 2
	R21Jan	FRW cosmology 3	HW1 given
3	M25Jan	Inflation 1
	R28Jan	Inflation 2
4	M01Feb	First 3 minutes 1
	R04Feb	First 3 minutes 2	HW1 due (15%)
5	M08Feb	Cosmological perturbations 1	HW2 given [R09Feb]
	R11Feb	Cosmological perturbations 2
--	--	[Reading Week]
6	M22Feb	Cosmological perturbations 3
	R25Feb	Cosmological perturbations 4	HW2 due (15%); work on Final Project
7	M01Mar	Cosmological perturbations 5
	R04Mar	Deriving Einstein eqns 1
8	M08Mar	Deriving Einstein eqns 2	HW3 given
	R11Mar	Deriving Einstein eqns 3
9	M15Mar	Alternative theories 1
	R18Mar	Alternative theories 2
10	M22Mar	BH thermodynamics 1	HW3 due (15%)
	R25Mar	BH thermodynamics 2	HW4 given
11	M29Mar	BH thermodynamics 3
	R01Apr	Gravitational lensing
12	M05Apr	Numerical relativity 1
	R08Apr	Numerical relativity 2	HW4 due (15%)
	M12Apr	--	Final Project report due (20%)
Exams	19,22Apr	--	Final Project presentation (20%) [1]

[1] Your 30-minute final project presentation and Q&A will occur at a mutually suitable date+time that does not clash with your other exams. See Quercus announcement for details.