• For advanced undergraduate physics majors

  • What is a gauge theory?
  • Feynman path integral
  • An Introduction to General Relativity
  • Dirac string
  • Black hole information paradox
  • Comments
  • The Basic Cosmology, the first part (for advanced undergraduate physics majors)

  • Why was very early universe dominated with light?
  • The CMB today
  • The CMB anisotropy analysis
  • Comments
  • The Basic Cosmology, the second part (for advanced undergraduate physics majors)

  • The number density, the energy density and the entropy density of relativistic gas
  • Neutrino decoupling
  • Recombination
  • Big Bang nucleosynthesis
  • Comments
  • Prerequisites for Loop Quantum Gravity, the first part

  • Vierbein formalism and Palatini action in general relativity
  • Gauge transformations in dreibein
  • Comments
  • Prerequisites for Loop Quantum Gravity, the second part

  • SU(2) Lie Group and Lie Algebra
  • Representations of SU(2) Lie Algebra
  • Non-Abelian gauge theory
  • Wilson line and Wilson loop
  • Comments
  • Prerequisites for Loop Quantum Gravity, the third part

  • The Maxwell Lagrangian and its equations of motion
  • Non-Abelian gauge theory in differential forms
  • Comments
  • Unification of Gravity and Electromagnetism in 5-dimensions

  • Kaluza-Klein theory
  • Comments
  • Loop Quantum Gravity (for physics graduate students)

  • Area operator in terms of newer variables and dreibein
  • Ashtekar variables
  • “Newer” variables in Loop Quantum Gravity
  • Area spectrum in Ashtekar variables and Newer variables
  • Spin Network
  • Comments
  • Elasticity

  • Comments
  • Verlinde’s emergent gravity (for advanced undergraduate physics majors)

  • Verlinde’s derivation of Tully-Fisher relation
  • Verlinde’s emergent gravity
  • Covariant formulation of Verlinde gravity
  • Comments
  • The CMB anisotropy

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