| Week |
Topic |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
| 1 |
Special Relativity (website)
Special Relativity (notes)
Chapter 1, p. 10 of book
|
Jan 16
Martin Luther King day
|
Jan 18
Snow day
|
Jan 20
Organization
So you found a theory of everything. Now what?
|
| 2 |
Jan 23
PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey of Nearby Galaxies
“Crisis in Cosmology”
What is spacetime?
What are forces?
|
Jan 25
Centaurus A
Postulates, Paradoxes,
Spacetime diagrams
|
Jan 27
APS Research/Employment Opportunities
Simultaneity
|
| 3 |
Jan 30
Time dilation paradox
Lorentz transformation
|
Feb 1
Michelson interferometer demo
The Late Show: Gravitational Waves
Trip to αCen
Spacetime wheel
| Last day to drop for free |
|
Feb 3
| In class Project 1: Tachyons |
|
| 4 |
Feb 6
M87 jet
Energy-momentum
The Rules of 4D Perspective
|
Feb 8
Video on Special Relativity:
The Mechanical Universe Lessons 41-44
41: The Michelson-Morley Experiment
42: The Lorentz Transformation
|
Feb 10
Pole-in-barn paradox
|
| 5 |
General Relativity,
Black Holes (notes)
General Relativity, Ch 2, p. 51 of book
Black Holes, Ch 6, p. 130 of book
Falling into a Black Hole (website)
Inside Black Holes (website)
|
Feb 13
|
Feb 15
Postulates of GR
|
Feb 17
Principle of Equivalence
|
| 6 |
Feb 20
Geodesics
Metric
|
Feb 22
Schwarzschild geometry
|
Feb 24
Journey into a Schwarzschild BH
River Model of BHs
Gullstrand and Painlevé
|
| 7 |
Feb 27
Embedding diagram (pdf)
Spacetime diagrams
|
Mar 1
The singularity is not a point
|
Mar 3
| In class Project 2: River Model |
|
| 8 |
Mar 6
Collapse to a black hole
Schwarzschild wormhole
| 5-6pm Homework Help Session in G126 |
|
Mar 8
Charged Black Holes
Reissner-Nordström metric
Reissner-Nordström waterfall
Reissner-Nordström Penrose diagram
|
Mar 10
Rotating Black Holes
Kerr-Newman metric
Kerr Penrose diagram
|
| 9 |
Mar 13
Penrose diagrams
Penrose diagrams (notes)
Mass inflation
Inside black holes
| 5-6pm Homework Help Session in G126 |
|
Mar 15
Gravitational Waves
|
Mar 17
Stephen Hawking
Hawking radiation (web)
Hawking radiation (notes)
|
| 10 |
Mar 20
Event Horizon Telescope Videos
EHT M87 announcement
|
Mar 22
| Fiske: “Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity” |
|
Take-home Midterm 2 available
|
|
Mar 24
No class (midterm)
|
| 11 |
|
Spring Break
|
| 12 |
Cosmology
|
Apr 3
Overview (notes 3.1)
Chapter 10, p. 234 of book
|
Apr 5
Standard \(\Lambda\)CDM model of Cosmology (notes 3.1)
Chapter 10, p. 243 of book
Fate of the Universe
Geometry of the Universe
Hubble diagram of Type Ia supernovae
Galaxy Clustering
|
Apr 7
Hubble sees \(z = 6.2\) star
Cosmic Microwave Background
|
| 13 |
Apr 10
Chapter 10, p. 233 of book
FLRW metric (notes 3.16)
|
Apr 12
Friedmann equations (notes 3.23)
Chapter 10, p. 238 of book
|
Apr 14
Matter, radiation, vacuum (notes 3.24)
Evolution of the Universe
|
| 14 |
Apr 17
Cosmic Microwave Background (notes 3.34)
Cosmic Microwave Background
Recombination (book p. 852)
| 5-6pm Homework Help Session in G126 |
|
Apr 19
Horizon (notes 3.40)
Horizon vs. comoving distance
Inflation (notes 3.45)
|
Apr 21
| In class Project 3: Power Spectrum of the CMB |
|
| 15 |
Apr 24
| 5-6pm Homework Help Session in G126 |
On line FCQs open
|
Apr 26
Dark Matter (notes 3.55)
Dark Matter
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (notes 3.63)
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
|
Apr 28
Time (notes 4.1, after 3.65)
|
| 16 |
May 1
On line FCQs close Tuesday 11.59pm
|
May 3
Story
|
May 5
Reading day (no class)
| Saturday May 6
| Take-home Final due 11.59pm Tue May 9 |
|
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