Advanced course on Gravity, Fall 2024
Lecture notes and Video
Lecture 1: Review of General Relativity
Lecture 2: Chandrasekhar Limit and Schwarzschild Black Hole
Lecture 3: Penrose Diagrams and Causal Structures of Spacetime
Lecture 4: The Reissner-Nordström Solution and Charged Black Holes
Lecture 5: Rotating Black Holes: Kerr and Kerr-Newman Black Hole
Lecture 6: Other exact solutions: FLRW, dS, and AdS spaces
Lecture 7: Event Horizons and Singularities
Lecture 8: ADM energy and positive energy theorem
Lecture 9: Black Hole Thermodynamics I: Laws and Entropy
Lecture 10: Black Hole Thermodynamics II: Temperature and Radiation
Lecture 11: Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Basics
Lecture 12: The Unruh Effect and Particle Creation
Lecture 13: Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Evaporation
Lecture 14: The Information Paradox
Lecture notes are written by referring to various sources without mentioning it. Comments are welcome.
Homework
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