Instructors: Eric Poisson, University of Guelph
Type: Guelph Waterloo Physics Institute credit course
Dates: January - April 2012, Wednesdays at 10:00-11:30 am and 3:30-5:00 pm
Location: Alice Room, Perimeter Institute

This course is a review of elementary General Relativity. Topics include the following: Timelike and Null Geodesic congruences; Hypersurfaces and junction conditions; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of General Relativity; Mass and angular momentum of a gravitating body; and The laws of black-hole mechanics.