PHY312 - Spring 2012
Relativity and Cosmology
Professor:
Simon Catterall,
309 Physics Building, 443-5978,
smc@physics.syr.edu.
Syllabus
Lecture slides
Some expanded notes on
Special Relativity
Expanded notes on General Relativity and Black Holes
Homeworks
Mid term exam and solutions
Project Suggestions
Midterm exam - Thursday 8 March in class. Revision sheet available
here. Revision class Tuesday March 6.
Final exam - Tuesday May 1 11:00-12:20 pm in rm 104N Physics. Revision
sheet available here. Revision classes Tuesday
April 24 and 26.
Formula sheet you may use in the final
Final project due Friday May 4.
Click here for
a python code showing orbits round a black hole as seen from
its embedding diagram
You need to download python (first) and then Vpython
to run this code. Open the file from the IDLE editor that comes
with python and select run.
This page maintained by Simon Catterall, last updated 5 January, 2012.