Santa Barbara: Institute for Theoretical Physics University of California, 1997. — 238 p.
These notes represent approximately one semester's worth of lectures on introductory general relativity for beginning graduate students in physics. Topics include manifolds, Riemannian geometry, Einstein's equations, and three applications: gravitational radiation, black holes, and cosmology. Individual chapters, and potentially updated versions, can be found at http://itp.ucsb. edu/-carroll/notes/.
Special Relativity and Flat Spacetime
Manifolds
Curvature
Gravitation
More Geometry
Weak Fields and Gravitational Radiation
The Schwarzschild Solution and Black Holes
Cosmology