Lecture Notes - Introduction to GR

[go quantum!]

I would like to know if anyone who had a good introductory GR course would mind sending me the scanned lectures notes if this person has them.
I think textbooks have too many words and I prefer to study lecture notes.
I am sorry if this was not the correct place for my post.

 

[haushofer]

I don't know what you mean by "to many words", but Sean Carroll's notes are for me personally the best notes to start with GR. The perfect balance between math and physics.

 

[Doc Al]

Sean Carroll's notes are available from his site: http://preposterousuniverse.com/grnotes/

 

[atyy]

http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/nwoodh/gr/index.html
http://www.blau.itp.unibe.ch/lecturesGR.pdf

 

[stevenb]

There are also Alex Maloney's lecture notes and recorded lectures.

http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~maloney/514/

 

[Rasalhague]

Some lectures by Kip Thorne. Although this is a course on Gravity waves, the lectures in section II include some more basic topics, "The mathematics underlying general relativity" and "The Einstein field equations".
http://elmer.tapir.caltech.edu/ph237/CourseOutlineA.html

And an online book he cowrote. General relativity from chapter 23 on.
http://www.pma.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2004/

 

[matonski]

Here are video lectures as well as notes from those lecture by Sean Carroll

 

[Ali907]

I want to download the lectures.

 

[Rasalhague]

Here are video lectures as well as notes from those lecture by Sean Carroll

Have you tried them? Did they work for you? In firefox, with NoScript set to allow standford.edu, when I click on the links to the videos, it opens this page [ http://www6.slac.stanford.edu/video.aspx ] with the message "The video you requested is an older format that is not currently being supported by SLAC. Please contact the Office of Communications for more information."

 

[matonski]

That sucks. I watched them before. I wasn't able to download them but I do have the audio on mp3's.

 

[Rasalhague]

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/teach/module_home/px436/notes

Lecture notes by Tom Marsh.