Gravitational-wave class 2019-2022
M.Sc. course, Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2019
I contributed as tutor for the gravitational-wave class of Prof. Bernuzzi during the summer semesters 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The summary page of the class can be found at Bernuzzi’s teaching page. The arguments of the class were:
- Linearization around flat spacetime
- Energy, propagation, and interaction
- Generation of gravitational waves in linearized theory
- Gravitational-wave sources
- The post-Newtonian expansion
- Linearization around black holes
- Effective-one-body description of the general-relativistic 2-body problem
- Strong, self-gravity and high-velocities source
- Gravitational-wave experiments and data analysis