ASTR 3740 Black Holes Spring 2017: Timetable
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| 1 | Special Relativity | Jan 16
Martin Luther King day |
Jan 18
Organization |
Jan 20
Philosophy |
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| 2 | Jan 23
Postulates, Paradoxes, Simultaneity, Spacetime diagrams |
Jan 25
Michelson interferometer demo Lorentz transformation, Time dilation paradox
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Jan 27
Spacetime wheel, Lorentz contraction paradox |
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| 3 | Jan 30
Trip to αCen Pole-in-barn paradox |
Feb 1
Video on Special Relativity: The Mechanical Universe Lessons 41-44
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Feb 3
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| 4 | Feb 7
The Rules of 4D Perspective Redshift factor |
Feb 8
Jets Energy-momentum
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Feb 10
The Rules of 4D Perspective: Math A Medley of Paradoxes Redshift |
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| 5 | Feb 13
History |
Feb 15
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Feb 17
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| 6 |
General Relativity, Black Holes |
Feb 20
Postulates of GR |
Feb 22
Principle of Equivalence |
Feb 24
Geodesics, metric |
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| 7 | Feb 27
Observational evidence for black holes |
Mar 1
Schwarzschild geometry
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Mar 3
River Model of BHs |
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| 8 | Mar 6
Spacetime diagrams Schwarzschild wormhole |
Mar 8
Collapse to a black hole Penrose diagrams
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Mar 10
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| 9 | Mar 13
Charged Black Holes |
Mar 15
Rotating Black Holes
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Mar 17
Hawking radiation |
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| 10 | Mar 20
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Mar 22
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Mar 24
Fiske: "Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity" |
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| 11 | Spring Break | ||||||||
| 12 | Cosmology | Apr 3
Overview |
Apr 5
Hubble expansion |
Apr 7
FLRW metric |
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| 13 | Apr 10
Friedmann equations |
Apr 12
Fiske: “Galaxies” |
Apr 14
Matter, radiation, vacuum |
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| 14 | Apr 17
Cosmic Microwave Background |
Apr 19
Horizon
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Apr 21
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| 15 | Apr 24
“DARE (Dark Ages Radio Explorer)” lecture by Prof. Jack Burns FCQ week (on line) |
Apr 26
Dark Matter Primordial Nucleosynthesis
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Apr 28
Inflation |
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| 16 | May 1
Time FCQs (on line) due by midnight |
May 3
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May 5
Story |
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| 17 | Monday May 8
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