EXPLANATORY NOTES

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Introduction to GR: Handouts 1-7

Quick review of Electrodynamics

Quick derivation for the Christoffel symbols!

Discussion of geodesic motion on a sphere

The conservation of particle stress-energy.

Negative stress-energy for Quantum Fields?

Constrained Hamiltonian systems

Notes on solutions of odes

Lecture notes from Brazil School

LECTURE NOTES

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9/24/18 Yang Yang (Corey Bathurst)
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10/22/18 Soham Kulkarni (July Thomas)
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