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Week Topic Monday Wednesday Friday
1 Special Relativity Jan 13
Organization
Jan 15
Philosophy
Jan 17
Postulates, Paradoxes, Simultaneity, Spacetime diagrams
2 Jan 20
Martin Luther King day
Jan 22
Lorentz transformation, Time dilation paradox
Homework 1 due in class
Jan 24
Spacetime wheel, Lorentz contraction paradox
3 Jan 27
Trip to αCen
Pole-in-barn paradox
Jan 29
Video on Special Relativity: The Mechanical Universe Lessons 41-44
Homework 2 due in class
Jan 31
The Rules of 4D Perspective
Jets
4 Feb 3
Energy-momentum
Feb 5
The Rules of 4D Perspective: Math
Redshift
Feb 7
In class Project 1: Tachyons
5 Feb 10
History
Feb 12
Homework 3 due in class
Summary Session
Feb 14
Midterm
6 General Relativity,
Black Holes
Feb 17
Postulates of GR, Principle of Equivalence
Feb 19
Geodesics, metric
Feb 21
Observational evidence for black holes
7 Feb 24
Schwarzschild geometry
River Model of BHs
Feb 26
Spacetime diagrams
Homework 4 due in class
Feb 28
Schwarzschild wormhole
Collapse to a black hole
8 Mar 3
Penrose diagrams
Charged black holes
Mar 5
Homework 5 due in class
Fiske: “Einstein's Universe” presented by Jack Burns
Mar 7
In class Project 2: River Model
9 Mar 10 Mar 12
Rotating Black Holes
Homework 6 due in class
Mar 14
Hawking radiation
10 Mar 17
Summary Session
Mar 19
Midterm
Mar 21
Fiske: "Black Holes"
11   Spring Break
12 Cosmology Mar 31
Overview
Apr 2
Hubble expansion
Apr 4
FLRW metric
13 Apr 7
Friedmann equations
Apr 9
Matter, radiation, vacuum
Apr 11
14 Apr 14
Cosmic Microwave Background
Apr 16
Horizon
Homework 7 due in class
Apr 18
In class Project 3
15 Apr 21
Inflation
FCQ week (on line)
Apr 23
Dark Matter
Primordial Nucleosynthesis
Homework 8 due in class
Apr 25
16 Apr 28
FCQs (on line) due by midnight
Apr 30
Summary Session
May 2
17   Monday May 5
1.30-4pm Final
   

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