Physics 776---Advanced Gravitation Theory---Fall 2003
Instructor: Prof. Ted Jacobson
Room 4115, 301-405-6020, jacobson@physics.umd.edu
Course textbook: General Relativity, R.M.
Wald
Gravitational notes by taj:
A Spacetime
Primer (41 pages) consisting of incomplete notes on introductory
concepts of general and special relativity (in that order), with the figures now
available;
Introductory
Lectures on Black Hole Thermodynamics (68 pages);
Black holes: inside and out (3 pages), some notes for a talk to
beginning graduate students.
Homework: hw1, hw2, hw3
Riemann normal coordinates solution (page 1, page 2)
Student
Projects
Lecture
notes by Breno Imbiriba
Supplemental material:
On the visualization
of differential forms I stumbled across this interesting article
by Dan Piponi on the web. He explains how to think of simple p-forms as n-p
dimensional submanifolds, wedge products as intersections of the submanifolds,
integration as counting intersections, and the exterior derivative as the
boundary of the manifolds representing the form. He interprets Stoke's theorem
in this picture.
Penrose
Black Hole Singularity Paper
Hawking
Area Theorem Paper
Living Review of Black Hole Thermodynamics, R.M. Wald (Living
Reviews version, arxiv
version)
Horizon Entropy, T. Jacobson
and R. Parentani (includes among other things discussion of versions of
the First Law)
Thermodynamics of Spacetime: the Einstein Equation of State, T. Jacobson
(PRL
version, arxiv version)
