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1 | Th Prologue | Aug 28
Overview |
Aug 30
A Vogage Among the Holes |
Sep 1
A Vogage Among the Holes |
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2 |
Th 1
Special Relativity |
Sep 4
Labor Day No classes |
Sep 6
Postulates |
Sep 8
Spacetime diagrams simultaneity (pdf) Lorentz contraction (pdf) |
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3 | Sep 11
Time dilation, Lorentz contraction |
Sep 13
What things actually look like at relativistic speeds Rules of 4-dimensional perspective (pdf)
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Sep 15
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4 | Sep 18
Quasars, superluminal jets |
Tue Sep 19
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Sep 20
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Sep 22
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5 |
Th 2, 3, 5, 6
General Relativity, Black Holes |
Sep 25
Falling into a Black Hole |
Sep 27
River Model of BHs |
Sep 29
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6 | Oct 2
Schwarzschild geometry Embedding diagram (pdf) |
Oct 4
Schwarzschild Wormhole, White Hole Collapse to a Black Hole |
Oct 6
Principle of Equivalence |
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7 | Oct 9
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Oct 11
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Oct 13
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8 |
How to script a movie
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Oct 16
"Contact" |
Oct 18
"Walt Disney's The Black Hole" |
Oct 20
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9 |
Th 8, 9
X-ray Binaries, Active Galactic Nuclei, Gamma Ray Bursts | Oct 23
Prof. Mitch Begelman: "Disks, Jets, X-ray Binaries, and Active Galactic Nuclei" |
Oct 25
Prof. Rosalba Perna: "Gamma Ray Bursts" (ppt) |
Oct 27
Prof. Mitch Begelman: "Disks, Jets, X-ray Binaries, and Active Galactic Nuclei" |
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10 |
Th 4, 5, 6
White dwarfs, Neutron stars, and Supernovae |
Oct 30
White dwarfs, neutron stars, and the nature of matter at very high density Mass-radius relation for cold matter (pdf) |
Tue Oct 31
"Monster of the Milky Way" Nova documentary on supermassive black holes, 7pm, Channel 6 (Rocky Mountain PBS). If you don't have a TV, watch it (free) at CU's Fiske Planetarium. |
Nov 1
Supernovae
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Nov 3
Video: "Monster of the Milky Way"
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11 |
Th 6, 7, 13, 14
Charged and Rotating Black Holes |
Nov 6
Supermassive BHs Census of known BHs |
Nov 8
Charged BHs Penrose diagrams |
Th Nov 9
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Charged BHs
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12 | Nov 13
Rotating BHs |
Nov 15
Supernovae |
Nov 17
Fiske: "Black Holes" |
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13 | Thanksgiving Break | |||||||||
14 |
Th 12
Black Holes Evaporate |
Nov 27
Hawking radiation |
Nov 29 | Dec 1
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15 |
Big Bang |
Dec 4
The Standard Model of Cosmology |
Tue Dec 5
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Inflation
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Dec 8
Prof. Webster Cash "MAXIM" |
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16 | Review week | Dec 11
Fiske: "Big Bang" |
Dec 13
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Dec 15
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17 | Finals week | Monday Dec 18
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