Spring 2019 ASTR 2030 Black Holes: Timetable
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| 1 | Th Prologue | Jan 14
Overview |
Jan 16
A Voyage Among the Holes |
Jan 18
Postulates of Special Relativity |
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| 2 |
Th 1
Special Relativity Rules of 4D Perspective |
Jan 21
Martin Luther King day |
Jan 23
Michelson interferometer demo Spacetime diagrams Simultaneity (pdf) |
Jan 25
Time dilation, Lorentz contraction Lorentz contraction (pdf) |
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| 3 | Jan 28
Preparation for Project 1 What things actually look like at relativistic speeds |
Jan 30
Preparation for Homework 1 |
Feb 1
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| 4 | Feb 4
Quasars, superluminal jets Pole-in-the-barn paradox |
Tue Feb 5
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Feb 6
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Feb 8
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| 5 |
Th 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 14
General Relativity, Black Holes Falling into a Black Hole Inside Black Holes |
Feb 11
Prof. Mitch Begelman will be lecturing all this week. X-Ray Binaries X-ray Binaries containing a Black Hole |
Feb 13
Accretion Disks |
Feb 15
Galactic Center |
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| 6 | Feb 18
Postulates of GR Principle of Equivalence Tidal forces |
Feb 20
River Model of BHs Falling into a Black Hole Journey into a Schwarzschild black hole |
Feb 22
Schwarzschild geometry |
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| 7 | Feb 25
Embedding diagram (pdf) Schwarzschild Wormhole, White Hole |
Feb 27
Preparation for Homework 2 Collapse to a Black Hole | Mar 1
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| 8 | Mar 4
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Tue Mar 5
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Mar 6
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Mar 8
Journey into a charged black hole Penrose diagrams |
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| 9 | Mar 11
Rotating BHs |
Mar 13
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Mar 15
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| 10 | Mar 18
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Mar 20
Event Horizon Telescope |
Apr 12
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| 14 | Apr 15
Neutron stars Preparation for Homework 3 |
Tue Apr 16
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Apr 17
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Apr 19
Gravitational Waves Preparation for Project 5 |
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| 15 |
Th 12
Black Holes Evaporate |
Apr 22
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Apr 24
Hawking radiation Notes on Hawking radiation Preparation for Homework 4 |
Apr 26
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| 16 | Last week of classes | Apr 29
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May 1
Last day of classes
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May 3
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| 17 | Mon May 6
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Updated 2019 May 4