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 schedule Spring 2005 ASTR 2030 Black Holes: Timetable

Week Topic Monday Wednesday Friday
1 Th Prologue Jan 10
Overview
Goals
 Jan 12
A Vogage Among the Holes 		Jan 14
A Vogage Among the Holes
2 Th 1
Special Relativity 		Jan 17
Martin Luther King day
No classes 		Jan 19
Postulates 		Jan 21
Spacetime diagrams
3 Jan 24
Time dilation, Lorentz contraction 		Jan 26
What things actually look like at relativistic speeds
5pm Wed Jan 26: Last moment to drop for free
 Jan 28
In class Project 1: Twin Paradox
4 Jan 31
Tachyons
Spacetime Wheel 		Tue Feb 1
Homework 1 Help Session 6-7pm Duane G1B30
Feb 2
Review Session
Homework 1 due in class: Draw a Relativistic Scene
 Feb 4
Midterm
5 Th 2, 3, 6, 7
General Relativity, Black Holes 		Feb 7
Falling into a Black Hole 		Feb 9
River Model of BHs 		Feb 11
In class Project 2: River Model
6 Feb 14
Schwarzschild geometry 		Feb 16
Wormholes, White Holes 		Feb 18
Principle of Equivalence
7 Feb 21
In class Project 3: Andromeda: Under the Night
 Feb 23
Review Session
 Feb 25
Midterm
8 How to script a movie
Read Th 4 in preparation for Project 4
 Feb 28
"Contact" 		Mar 2
"Walt Disney's The Black Hole" 		Mar 4
In class Project 4: The Mystery of White Dwarfs
Midterm Goals
9 Th 4, 5
White dwarfs, Neutron stars
Mar 7
Stellar evolution, White Dwarfs 		Mar 9
Prof. Rosalba Perna: "Gamma Ray Bursts" 		Mar 11
Neutron stars, Supernovae
10 Th 8, 9
X-ray Binaries, Active Galactic Nuclei 		Mar 14
Accretion disks, jets
Census of known BHs 		Tue Mar 15
Homework 2 Help Session 6-7pm Duane G1B30
Mar 16
Supermassive BHs
Homework 2 due in class: Black Hole Threatens Earth
 Mar 18
Video: Black Holes: The Ultimate Abyss
11   Spring Break
12 Th 8, 9
X-ray Binaries, Active Galactic Nuclei 		Mar 28
Fiske: "Black Holes 1" 		Mar 30
Fiske: "Black Holes 2" 		Apr 1
Charged BHs
13 Th 6, 7, 13, 14
Charged and Rotating Black Holes 		Apr 4
Charged BHs 		Tue Apr 5
Homework 3 Help Session 6-7pm Duane G1B30
Apr 6
Prof. Webster Cash "MAXIM"
Homework 3 due in class: Sagittario
 Apr 8
Rotating BHs
14 Th 12
Black Holes Evaporate
Prof. Nick Gnedin 		Apr 11
Hawking radiation 		Apr 13 Apr 15
In class Project 5: Compact Binary
15
Big Bang 		Apr 18
The Standard Model of Cosmology 		Tue Apr 19
Homework 4 Help Session 6-7pm Duane G1B30
Apr 20
Homework 4 due in class: Hawking Effect
 Apr 22
Inflation
Final Goals
16 Review week Apr 25
Fiske: "Big Bang" 		Apr 27
Review Session
FCQs
 Apr 29
Review Session
17 Finals week   THURSDAY May 5
7:30-10:30am Final
  

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