PHY483/1483F
Required textbook
 | The required text will be useful for us, both as a backgrounder and as an anchor for a good fraction of the lecture material of the course. |
It is:-
- Sean Carroll's new [2003] textbook "An Introduction to General Relativity: Spacetime and Geometry", published by Addison-Wesley.
This text has an associated website .
Other texts
A professor in former years found that students also liked GR texts by the following authors:
- Stephani
- Hawking and Ellis
- Schutz
- Hartle
Etc.
Supplementary material from other texts/articles will be used where appropriate.
- [2005-09-29@21:10] Here's another perspective on indices in special relativity, by Prof. Michael Luke (from his QFT course notes) .