Special Topics Course:  General Relativity

West Point, Spring 2005

 

Astronaut Ed White demonstrating Einstein's Equivalence Principle during Gemini IV

 

During the Spring Term of 2005 I taught an introductory course on the General Theory of Relativity to six cadets at West Point. These cadets were very sharp and motivated, and it was a privilege to be their instructor. This webpage is a modified version of the course webpage.

What my students accomplished

Textbooks:

  •       James B. Hartle, Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity, Addison Wesley, San Francisco, 2003.
  •       Larry Niven, Protector, Ballantine Books, New York, 1973.

    Our classroom was equipped with an electronic "smartboard" that recorded everything I wrote on it: classroom smartboards

    Preliminary Syllabus

    Companion website to the Gravity textbook

     

    Other links:

    The LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) experiment

    The LISA  (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) space mission

     

     

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    This page last updated on 22 Dec 2008.