Gravitational waves

Master course: spring 2010

by

Chris Van Den Broeck

Jo van den Brand

Tjonnie Li

Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics

Science Park 105, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Course material: Lecture notes

• Lecture notes (pdf)

Course material: presentations

• General relativity - a summary (pdf)
• General relativity - a summary (pptx)
• Cosmology (pdf)
• Cosmology (pptx)
• Inflation (pdf)
• Inflation (pptx)
• Detection of gravitational radiation (pdf)
• Detection of gravitational radiation (pptx)

Exam (return to Nikhef secretariat, before May 31, 2010):

• Take home exam 2010

Homework exersizes (return at the start of the next lecture):

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7

Interesting Links:

• The Review of Particle Physics
• The Particle Adventure
• Hyper Physics