Fall 2003 ASTR 2030 Timetable

Fall 2003 ASTR 2030 Homepage

Fall 2003 ASTR 2030 Black Holes: Timetable

Week

Topic

Tuesday

Thursday

Th Prologue

Aug 26
Overview

Goals

Aug 28
A Vogage Among the Holes

Th 1
Special Relativity

Sep 2
Postulates, Spacetime diagrams

Sep 4
Time dilation, Lorentz contraction, Spacetime Wheel

Sep 9
What things actually look like at relativistic speeds

Wed Sep 10: Last day to drop for free

Sep 11
Tachyons

In class Project 1: Twin Paradox

Th 2, 3
General Relativity, Black Holes

Sep 16

Homework 1 due in class

Falling into a Black Hole
River Model of BHs

Sep 18

In class Project 2: River Model

Sep 23
Principle of Equivalence
Schwarzschild geometry

Sep 25

In class Project 3: Negative Mass

Sep 30
Video on Special Relativity: The Mechanical Universe Lessons 41-44

Oct 2
Fall Break

Oct 7

Review Session

Oct 9

Midterm

How to script a movie

Oct 14
"Contact"
"Walt Disney's The Black Hole"

Midterm Goals

Oct 16

In class Project 4: Andromeda "Under the Night"

Th 4, 5
White dwarfs, Neutron stars

Oct 21
Stellar evolution, White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars

Oct 23
Fiske: "Supernova"

Th 8, 9
X-ray Binaries, Active Galactic Nuclei

Oct 28

Homework 2 due in class

Guest lecture by Nahum Arav
Accretion disks, jets
Census of known BHs

Oct 30
Supermassive BHs

In class Project 5

Nov 4
Prof. Webster Cash "MAXIM"

Nov 6
Fiske: "Black Holes"

Th 6, 7, 12, 13, 14
Black Holes, Wormholes, Evaporation

Nov 11
Wormholes, White Holes

Nov 13

Homework 3 due in class

Charged BHs

Nov 18

In class Project 6

Nov 20
Video: Black Holes: The Ultimate Abyss

Nov 25
Rotating Black Holes

Nov 27
Thanksgiving

Hawking radiation

Dec 2
Big Bang

Final Goals

Dec 4
Fiske: "Big Bang"

Dec 9

Homework 4 due in class

Review Session

Dec 11

Review Session

Dec 16

7:30-10:30am Final

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Updated 3 Dec 2003