Fall 2011 ASTR 2030 Black Holes: Timetable
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| 1 | Th Prologue | Aug 23
Overview |
Aug 25
A Vogage Among the Holes |
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| 2 |
Th 1
Special Relativity Rules of 4D Perspective |
Aug 30
Postulates Spacetime diagrams Simultaneity (pdf) |
Sep 1
Time dilation, Lorentz contraction Lorentz contraction (pdf) Preparation for Project 1 |
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| 3 | Sep 6
What things actually look like at relativistic speeds Rules of 4-dimensional perspective (pdf) Preparation for Homework 1 |
Wed Sep 7
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Sep 8
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| 4 | Mon Sep 12
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Sep 13
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Sep 15
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| 5 |
Th 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 14
General Relativity, Black Holes Falling into a Black Hole Inside Black Holes |
Sep 20
Postulates of GR Principle of Equivalence Tidal forces |
Sep 22
River Model of BHs Falling into a Black Hole Journey into a Schwarzschild black hole Preparation for Project 2 |
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| 6 | Sep 27
Prof. Mitch Begelman Census of known BHs Supermassive BHs Preparation for Homework 2 |
Sep 29
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| 7 | Mon Oct 3
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Oct 4
Embedding diagram (pdf) Schwarzschild Wormhole, White Hole Collapse to a Black Hole | Oct 6
Spacetime diagrams Penrose diagrams Journey into a charged black hole |
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| 8 | Oct 11
Rotating BHs The inflationary instability at the inner horizon |
Oct 13
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| 9 |
Th 8, 9, 10
X-ray Binaries, Active Galactic Nuclei | Oct 18
Prof. Mitch Begelman: “X-ray Binaries” |
Oct 20
Active Galactic Nuclei Gravitational Waves |
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| 10 | Oct 25
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Oct 27
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| 11 |
Lew Hunter's "Screenwriting 434"
How to script a movie Read Th Ch 4 in preparation for Project 4 |
Nov 1
"Contact" (1997) |
Nov 3
"Walt Disney's The Black Hole" (1979) |
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| 12 |
Th 4, 5, 6
White dwarfs, Neutron stars, Supernovae | Nov 8
Prof. Phil Armitage: “Supernovae, Gamma Ray Bursts” |
Nov 10
White dwarfs, neutron stars, and the nature of matter at very high density Mass-radius relation for cold matter (pdf) Preparation for Homework 3 |
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| 13 | Nov 15
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Wed Nov 16
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Nov 17
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| 14 | Thanksgiving Break | ||||||||
| 15 |
Th 12
Black Holes Evaporate |
Mon Nov 28
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Nov 29
Hawking radiation Preparation for Project 5 and Homework 4 | Dec 1
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| 16 | Last week of classes | Mon Dec 5
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Dec 6
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Dec 8
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| 17 | Exam week | Mon Dec 12
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Dec 13 | Dec 15 | |||||
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