PHYS 515 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

Lectures will take place online on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 15:30pm - 16:50pm. Due to new security regulations you need to be logged in to your zoom account to attend the lectures. Recordings of the lectures will be posted on mediaspace.

Homework sets will become available online on Tuesdays, starting in week 2. They are due on the following Tuesday and have to be submitted via my.physics.

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Week Date Lecture Homework
1 Tue 01/26/2021 L1. Introduction to class  
Thu 01/28/2021 L2. Special Relativity  
2 Tue 02/02/2021 L3. Special relativity HW 1 assigned
Thu 02/04/2021 L4. Lorentz transformations; Vectors  
3 Tue 02/09/2021 L5. 1-forms; Tensors HW1 due
HW 2 assigned
Thu 02/11/2021 L6. Tensors  
4 Tue 02/16/2021 L7. Physics in flat spacetimes HW 2 due
HW 3 assigned
Thu 02/18/2021 L8. Manifolds  
5 Tue 02/23/2021 L9. Manifolds HW 3 due
HW 4 assigned
Thu 02/25/2021 L10. Tensors in curved spacetime  
6 Tue 03/02/2021 L11. Covariant derivative; geodesics HW 4 due
HW 5 assigned
Thu 03/04/2021 L12. Geodesics; Riemann Curvature  
7 Tue 03/09/2021 Revision lecture HW 5 due
no new HW assigned
Thu 03/11/2021 Midterm   
8 Tue 03/16/2021 L14. Symmetries; Gravitation HW 6 assigned
Thu 03/18/2021 L15. Einstein's equations  
9 Tue 03/23/2021 L16. Lagrangian formulation HW 6 due
HW 7 assigned
Thu 03/25/2021 L17. Properties of the Einstein Equations  
10 Tue 03/30/2021 L18. Black holes and Schwarzschild metric HW 7 due
HW 8 assigned
Thu 04/01/2021 L19. The Schwarzschild metric  
11 Tue 04/06/2021 L20. Geodesics of Schwarzschild HW 8 due
HW 9 assigned
Thu 04/08/2021 L21. Schwarzschild black holes  
12 Tue 4/13/2021 No class (HW 9 due Wed 04/14)
Thu 04/15/2021 L22. Schwarzschild black holes HW 10 assigned
13 Tue 04/20/2021 L23. Gravitational Waves HW 10 due
HW 11 assigned
Thu 04/22/2021 L24. Gravitational Waves  
14 Tue 04/27/2021 L25. Gravitational Waves; Cosmology HW 11 due
HW 12 assigned
Thu 04/29/2021 L26. Cosmology  
15 Tue 05/04/2021 L27. Cosmology; Revision
Last day of classes		 HW 12 due
Thu 05/06/2021 Reading Day
Fr 05/07/2021 - 05/08/2021 Final Exam