Fall 2002 ASTR 2030-002 Black Holes: Timetable
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Fall 2002 ASTR 2030-002 Black Holes: Timetable| Week | Topic | M | W | F | ||
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| 1 |
Th Prologue
A Vogage Among the Holes |
Aug 26
Overview |
Aug 28
Hades, Sagittario |
Aug 30
Gargantua |
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| 2 | How to write a movie script | Sep 2 Labor Day |
Sep 4
Contact |
Sep 6
Walt Disney's The Black Hole |
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| 3 |
Th 1
Special Relativity |
Sep 9
History |
Sep 11
Postulates
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Sep 13
The nub of Special Relativity, Spacetime diagrams |
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| 4 | Sep 16
Time dilation, Lorentz contraction, Spacetime Wheel |
Sep 18
What things actually look like at relativistic speeds |
Sep 20
Twin paradox, Tachyons |
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| 5 |
Th 2, 3; Be 1
General Relativity, Black Holes |
Sep 23
Principle of Equivalence |
Sep 25
Falling into a Black Hole |
Sep 27
Schwarzschild geometry |
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| 6 | Sep 30
River Description of BHs |
Oct 2
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Oct 4
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| 7 |
Th 4, 5; Be 2
White dwarfs, Neutron stars | Oct 7
White dwarfs |
Oct 9
Neutron stars
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Oct 11
Fall Break |
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| 8 |
Th 8, 9; Be 3-7
X-ray Binaries, Active Galactic Nuclei | Oct 14
Brainstorming Script 1 |
Oct 16
Prof. Mitch Begelman How to detect a Black Hole |
Oct 18
Prof. Mitch Begelman Jets |
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| 9 | Oct 21
Census of known BHs The Galactic Center BH |
Oct 23
Supermassive BHs |
Oct 25
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| 10 |
Th 6, 7, 13, 14
Black Holes |
Oct 28
Charged BHs |
Oct 30
Spacetime diagrams of BHs |
Nov 1
BH sequences in popular movies |
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| 11 | Nov 4
Video on Special Relativity: The Mechanical Universe Lessons 41-44 |
Nov 6
Video: Black Holes: The Ultimate Abyss |
Nov 8
Prof. Webster Cash MAXIM |
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| 12 | Nov 11
Penrose diagrams |
Nov 13
Charged Black Holes |
Nov 15
Rotating Black Holes |
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| 13 |
Th 12; Be 9
Evaporation |
Nov 18
Hawking radiation |
Nov 20
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Nov 22
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| 14 | Nov 25
Fiske: "Black Holes 1" |
Nov 27
Fiske: "Black Holes 2" |
Nov 29
Thanksgiving |
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| 15 | Big Bang | Dec 2
Gunnar Wille (tentative; sorry, no go) |
Dec 4
Brainstorming Script 2 |
Dec 6
Big Bang FCQs |
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| 16 | Dec 9
Fiske: "Big Bang" |
Dec 11
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