Gravitational Waves

Fall 2025    Electromagnetism is fundamental to how humans understand the physical world and cosmos at large. This is why it forms the core part of a physicist's education. In September 2015, humanity began to hear from the cosmos via gravitational radiation. This means the study of (weak field) gravitation ought to become an increasingly important component of a physicist's education. To this end, these lectures aim to provide an introduction to the physics behind Einstein's equations in the weak curvature limit.

1. Class Venue: 304
   
2. Class Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays 5 pm to 6:45 pm
3. My Office: 428K
   
4. E-mail: yizen [dot] chu [at] gmail [dot] com
5. My Office Hours:TBA

• Disability     If you have a disability that you think I should know about, and if you need special accomodations, please feel free to speak to me after class or e-mail me to set up a meeting.    
• Academic Integerity     You are encouraged to discuss with your classmates the material covered in class, and even work together on your assignments. However, the work you turn in must be the result of your own effort. If I find that you copied your work from some place else, you will immediately receive zero credit for that particular piece of work. If you plagarized your classmate, your classmate will also receive zero credit for her/his/their work, unless (s)he/they can prove to my satisfaction (s)he/they were unwilling participant(s) of your dishonesty.

• Lecture Notes for Differential Geometry     (Chapters 8 and 9)
• Lecture Notes for Physics in Curved Spacetime and General Relativity
  

While developing this course, I have taken inspiration from several of the textbooks listed above.

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