Phys 675 -
Introduction to Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology
University of Maryland, College Park
Fall 2014, Prof. T. Jacobson
Inflation
on the Back of an Envelope - John Preskill
Comments on the
Starobinsky Model and its Descendants - A. Kehagias, A. M.
Dizgah, A. Riotto
TASI Lectures on
Inflation - Daniel Baumann
In an expanding universe, what
doesn’t expand? - R. H. Price and J. D. Romano
Size of a hydrogen atom
in the expanding universe - W. B. Bonnor
A homogeneous universe of constant
mass and increasing radius accounting for the radial velocity
of extra-galactic nebulae -Note by Abb´e G. Lemaˆıtre 1927
Historical Note on 1927
Lemaitre paper - J.P. Luminet
The Beginning of the World
from the Point of View of Quantum Theory - Lemaitre, 1931
Historical Note on
1931 Lemaitre paper - J.P. Luminet
‘NO SUCCESS LIKE FAILURE . . . ’:
EINSTEIN’S QUEST FOR GENERAL RELATIVITY, 1907–1920
MICHEL JANSSEN,
pp. 167–227 in: Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner
(Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Einstein.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Diagrams explaining
special relativity: simultaneity,
k-factor,
velocity,
and spacetime Pythagoras theorem
Article
on interpreting spacetime diagrams, and proving the
spacetime Pythagoras theorem, by Dieter Brill and Ted
Jacobson
Notes
on special relativity and a bit about GR
[These notes were written by T. Jacobson for Phys 410
(classical mechanics). See Chapters 10 (SR) and 11 (GR).]
determinant = volume ratio
Non-affinely parametrized geodesic
equation
http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/grav_lensing_history
Gravitational lensing presentation
Broad Iron Lines in Active Galactic
Nuclei
The Kerr Metric - review
paper by Saul Teukolsky
Penrose-Carter diagrams - notes by Albert
Roura
Kerr orbits - Mathematica
Notebook
Gravitational Collapse: The Role of
General Relativity - 1969 article by Penrose
The Conceptual origins of
Maxwell's equations and gauge theory - C N Yang in Physics
Today, November 2014
Early
History of Gauge
Theories and Kaluza-Klein Theories, with a Glance at Recent
Developments - O'Raifertaigh and Straumann