Spring 2012 ASTR 2030 Black Holes: Timetable
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| 1 | Th Prologue | Jan 17
Overview |
Jan 19
A Vogage Among the Holes |
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| 2 |
Th 1
Special Relativity Rules of 4D Perspective |
Jan 24
Postulates Spacetime diagrams Simultaneity (pdf) |
Jan 26
Time dilation, Lorentz contraction Lorentz contraction (pdf) Preparation for Project 1 |
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| 3 | Jan 31
What things actually look like at relativistic speeds Rules of 4-dimensional perspective (pdf) Preparation for Homework 1 |
Wed Feb 1
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Feb 2
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| 4 | Mon Feb 6
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Feb 7
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Feb 9
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| 5 |
Th 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14
General Relativity, Black Holes Falling into a Black Hole Inside Black Holes |
Feb 14
Postulates of GR Principle of Equivalence Tidal forces |
Feb 16
River Model of BHs Falling into a Black Hole Journey into a Schwarzschild black hole Preparation for Project 2 |
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| 6 | Feb 21
Census of known BHs Supermassive BHs Sagittario Preparation for Homework 2 |
Feb 23
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| 7 | Mon Feb 27
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Feb 28
Embedding diagram (pdf) Schwarzschild Wormhole, White Hole Collapse to a Black Hole | Mar 1
Spacetime diagrams Penrose diagrams Journey into a charged black hole |
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| 8 | Mar 6
Rotating BHs The inflationary instability at the inner horizon |
Mar 8
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| 9 | Mar 13
X-ray Binaries Active Galactic Nuclei |
Mar 15
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| 10 | Mar 20
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Mar 22 Video: "Monster of the Milky Way" (NOVA) | |||||||||
| 11 | Spring Break | ||||||||||
| 12 |
Lew Hunter's "Screenwriting 434"
How to script a movie Read Th Ch 4 in preparation for Project 4 |
Apr 3
"Contact" (1997) |
Apr 5
"Walt Disney's The Black Hole" (1979) |
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| 13 |
Th 4, 5, 6
White dwarfs, Neutron stars, Supernovae | Apr 10
White dwarfs, neutron stars, and the nature of matter at very high density Mass-radius relation for cold matter (pdf) Preparation for Homework 3 |
Apr 12
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| 14 | Mon Apr 16
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Apr 17
Supernovae
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Apr 19
Gravitational Waves Preparation for Project 5 |
Fri Apr 20
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| 15 |
Th 12
Black Holes Evaporate |
Apr 24
Hawking radiation Preparation for Homework 4 |
Apr 26
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| 16 | Last week of classes | Mon Apr 30
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May 1
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May 3
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Sat May 5
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Updated 2012 Apr 25