PHYS 515 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Online material
Recordings of the lectures and homework sets will be available online here and under schedule.
Exam papers
| 9 March 2022 | Midterm; available in person at beginning of exam |
| 6-7 May 2022 | Final exam; will become available on 6 May 2022 at 9am. |
Homework assignments
New homework sheets will be uploaded on Wednesdays before class and they are due to be handed in online via my.physics on the following Wednesday until 11:59pm CST.
In general, you are allowed to use computer algebra software, like Maple or Mathematica, unless stated otherwise. If you do use computer algebra software, together with your PDF solution, you must provide a well-formatted print out of your code. Under no circumstances are you allowed to use a computer algebra package, such as grTensor or xTensor, to calculate tensorial quantities.
| Week | Homework |
|---|---|
| 1 | no homework |
| 2 | HW 1 |
| 3 | HW 2 HW 1 Solution |
| 4 | HW 3 HW 2 Solution |
| 5 | HW 4 HW 3 Solution |
| 6 | HW 5 HW 4 Solution |
| 7 | no homework (midterm exam) |
| 8 | HW 6 HW 5 Solution |
| 9 | no homework (spring break) |
| 10 | HW 7 HW 6 Solution |
| 11 | HW 8 HW 7 Solution |
| 12 | HW 9 HW 8 Solution |
| 13 | no homework |
| 14 | HW 11 HW 9 Solution |
| 15 | HW 12 HW 11 Solution |
| 16 | no homework (finals) HW 12 Solution |
Recordings of lectures and lecture notes
The recordings of lectures will typically be uploaded within 1 day after class.
Notes produced during online lectures will be uploaded here. For in-person lectures, please take your own notes and refer to the textbook.
| Week | Lecture notes |
|---|---|
| 1 | L1. Slides: Introduction to class L1. Notes: Special Relativity |
| 3 | L4. Notes: Vectors L5. Notes: 1-forms, tensors |
| 8 | L14. Review lecture notes (from Spring 2021) |
Additional material
Earlier version of Sean Carroll's textbook is available as lecture notes.
Additional material will be posted here.