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