Teaching

This page hosts the syllabus, homework assignments, and other relevant information for AS.171.646 (General Relativity).

Syllabus

Homework will be announced here in due time.

Homework #1 (due 9/29): Solve the following problems from Poisson-Will: Problems 1.5, 1.6; Problem 3.1. Read carefully and reproduce the calculations in this article (Gravitational waves on the back of an envelope by Bernard Schutz). Show your work - that’s the whole point! You learned the basic techniques from the first few classes. In particular, reproduce Eqs. (16), (19), (22), (24), and - perhaps the most important of all - the unnumbered equation before Eq. (39). Extra points if you recover the order-of-magnitude estimates for supernovae and binaries in Sections III.E and III.F.

Homework #2 (due 10/13): Solve the following problems from Poisson-Will: Problems 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10