PHYS 515 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
Lectures will take place on Mondays from 17:00pm - 18:20pm
and on Wednesdays from 17:05pm - 18:25pm (after the Physics colloquium)
in 464 Loomis Lab.
Note that the first week of classes, 18-21 January 2022 will be online.
You need to be logged in to your zoom account to attend the lectures online.
Recordings of the lectures will be posted on mediaspace.
Homework sets will become available online on Wednesdays before the lecture, starting in week 2. They are due on the following Wednesday before 11:59pm CST and they have to be submitted via my.physics.
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For details on semester dates, registration deadlines, etc. please check the Academic calendar.
| Week | Date | Lecture | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mo 01/17/2022 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day no classes | |
| We 01/19/2021 | L1. Introduction to class Special Relativity Lecture online |
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| 2 | Mo 01/24/2022 | L2. Special relativity | |
| We 01/26/2022 | L3. Lorentz transformations | HW 1 assigned | |
| 3 | Mo 01/31/2022 | L4. Vectors | |
| We 02/02/2022 | L5. 1-forms, Tensors | HW 1 due HW 2 assigned | |
| 4 | Mo 02/07/2022 | L6. Physics in flat spacetimes | |
| We 02/09/2022 | L7. Manifolds | HW 2 due HW 3 assigned | |
| 5 | Mo 02/14/2022 | L8. Manifolds | |
| We 02/16/2022 | L9. Tensors in curved spacetimes | HW 3 due HW 4 assigned | |
| 6 | Mo 02/21/2022 | L10. Covariant derivatives | |
| We 02/23/2022 | L11. Geodesics | HW 4 due HW 5 assigned | |
| 7 | Mo 02/28/2022 | L12. Riemann curvature | |
| We 03/02/2022 | L13. Symmetries | HW 5 due No homework assigned | |
| 8 | Mo 03/07/2022 | L14. Review lecture notes (from Spring 2021 |
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| We 03/09/2022 | Midterm Exam 17:00 - 18:30 CST in 144 Loomis |
No homework due HW 6 assigned | |
| 9 | 03/12/2022 -- 03/20/2022 | Spring Break | |
| 10 | Mo 03/21/2022 | L15. Gravitation | |
| We 03/23/2022 | L16. Einstein's Equations | HW 6 due HW 7 assigned | |
| 11 | Mo 03/28/2022 | L17. Lagrangian formulation | |
| We 03/30/2022 | L18. Properties of Einstein's Equations | HW 7 due HW 8 assigned | |
| 12 | Mo 04/04/2022 | L19. The Schwarzschild metric | |
| We 04/06/2022 | L20. Geodesics of the Schwarzschild metric | HW 8 due HW 9 assigned | |
| 13 | Mo 04/11/2022 | APS April Meeting | |
| We 04/13/2022 | L21. Black holes | no homework due this week | |
| 14 | Mo 04/18/2022 | L22. Black holes | |
| We 04/20/2022 | L23. Neutron stars | HW 9 due Note: long homework! HW 11 assigned | |
| 15 | Mo 04/25/2022 | L24. Gravitational Waves | |
| We 04/27/2022 | L24. Gravitational waves | HW 11 due HW 12 assigned | |
| 16 | Mo 05/02/2022 | L25. Cosmology | |
| We 05/04/2022 | L26. New frontiers in gravitation Revision lecture Last day of classes | HW 12 due | |
| Th 05/05/2022 | Reading Day | ||
| Fr 05/06/2022 -- Sa 05/07/2022 | Final Exam | ||