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1 | Jan 12
Ch 1. Special Relativity Special Relativity (website) |
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2 | Jan 19
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3 | Jan 26
Ch 2. General Relativity
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4 | Feb 2
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5 | Feb 9
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Feb 11
Gravitational waves detected by LIGO! Ch 3. Weyl tensor |
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6 | Feb 16
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Feb 18
Ch 5. Observational Evidence for Black Holes Images |
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7 | Feb 23
Ch 6–8. Schwarzshild black hole Falling into a Black Hole (website) Inside Black Holes (website)
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8 | Mar 1
Ch 8. Reissner-Nordström black hole
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Mar 3
Ch 9. Kerr black hole
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9 | Mar 8
Ch 10. Cosmology |
Mar 10
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10 | Mar 15 | Mar 17
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11 | Spring Break | |||||
12 | Mar 29
Ch 11. Tetrad approach to general relativity |
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13 | Apr 5
Ch 19–21. Black hole interiors
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14 | Apr 12
Ch 16. Action principle for gravity
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Apr 14
Ch 25, 26. General Relativistic Perturbation Theory |
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15 | Apr 19
FCQ week |
Apr 21
Ch 27–29. Cosmological Perturbations |
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16 | Apr 26 | Apr 28
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17 | May 3 | May 5
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