| Week |
Topic |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
| 1 |
Special Relativity
|
Jan 13
Organization
|
Jan 15
What is spacetime?
What are forces?
|
Jan 17
Postulates, Paradoxes, Simultaneity,
Spacetime diagrams
|
| 2 |
Jan 20
Martin Luther King day
|
Jan 22
Michelson interferometer demo
Simultaneity, time dilation paradox
|
Jan 24
Lorentz transformation
Spacetime wheel
|
| 3 |
Jan 27
Trip to αCen
Pole-in-barn paradox
|
Jan 29
Video on Special Relativity:
The Mechanical Universe Lessons 41-44
| Last day to drop for free |
|
Jan 31
| In class Project 1: Tachyons |
|
| 4 |
Feb 3
Energy-momentum
|
Feb 5
The Rules of 4D Perspective
Redshift factor
|
Feb 7
|
| 5 |
General Relativity,
Black Holes
Falling into a Black Hole
Inside Black Holes
|
Feb 10
|
Feb 12
Postulates of GR
Principle of Equivalence
|
Feb 14 ♥
Geodesics
|
| 6 |
Feb 17
Metric
|
Feb 19
Schwarzschild geometry
Embedding diagram (pdf)
|
Feb 21
Spacetime diagrams
Journey into a Schwarzschild BH
River Model of BHs
Gullstrand and Painlevé
|
| 7 |
Feb 24
Penrose diagrams
Schwarzschild wormhole
|
Feb 26
Collapse to a black hole
The singularity is a not a point
|
Feb 28
| In class Project 2: River Model |
|
| 8 |
Mar 2
|
Mar 4
Observational evidence for black holes
|
Mar 6
Charged Black Holes
Rotating Black Holes
|
| 9 |
Mar 9
Mass inflation
Inside black holes
|
Mar 11
Gravitational Waves
|
Th Mar 12
Voyagers dress rehearsal 7pm Fiske (free to students)
|
Mar 13
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Event Horizon Telescope
ASTR/Phys Professional Development
|
| 10 |
Mar 16
|
Mar 18
Instructions for Midterm 2
Kerr diagram for midterm
Most interesting/baffling things
|
Mar 20
Hawking radiation (web)
Hawking radiation (notes)
|
| 11 |
|
Spring Break
|
| 12 |
Cosmology
|
Mar 30
Overview (notes 3.1)
Chapter 10, p. 254 of book
|
Apr 1
Hubble diagram of Type Ia supernovae
Cosmic Microwave Background
Galaxy Clustering
|
Apr 3
FLRW metric (notes 3.16)
Chapter 10, p. 260 of book
|
| 13 |
Apr 6
Friedmann equations (notes 3.22)
Chapter 10, p. 266 of book
|
Apr 8
|
Apr 10
Matter, radiation, vacuum (notes 3.29)
Evolution of the Universe
|
| 14 |
Apr 13
Cosmic Microwave Background (notes 3.34)
Cosmic Microwave Background
|
Apr 15
Horizon (notes 3.40)
|
Apr 17
| In class Project 3: Power Spectrum of the CMB |
|
| 15 |
Apr 20
Inflation (notes 3.45)
On line FCQs open
|
Apr 22
Dark Matter (notes 3.55)
|
Apr 24
Time (notes 4.1, after 3.65)
|
| 16 |
Apr 27
On line FCQs due by 11.59pm
|
Apr 29
Story
|
May 1
Reading day (no class)
| Saturday May 2
| Take-home Final due 11.59pm Tue May 5 |
|
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