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ASTR470

ASTR 470 – General Relativity

Instructor: Dr. Duncan Lorimer

Contact details: duncan.lorimer@mail.wvu.edu

Notes and resources: In case they are helpful, I will post my (very terse) notes from the lectures below. Please be aware, however, that you are strongly encouraged to make your own more detailed notes to aid your learning in this class.

Other stuff:
Plane-symmetric spacetime | Mock midterm longer questions | Mock midterm multiple choice | Tensor calculus | Raindrop coordinates | Kruskal and Penrose Diagrams | Quotient theorem | Vectors and Co-Vectors | pole in barn paradox | Syllabus |