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Week Topic Monday Wednesday Friday
1 Special Relativity Jan 12
Organization 		Jan 14
Philosophy 		Jan 16
History
2 Jan 19
Martin Luther King day 		Jan 21
Postulates 		Jan 23
Spacetime diagrams
3 Jan 26
Video on Special Relativity: The Mechanical Universe Lessons 41-44 		Jan 28
Homework 1 due in class
Paradoxes
Last day to drop for free
 Jan 30
Time dilation, Lorentz contraction
4 Feb 2
What things actually look like at relativistic speeds 		Feb 4
Spacetime Wheel 		Feb 6
In class Project 1: Tachyons
5 Feb 9
Energy-momentum
Homework 2 due in class
 Feb 11
Summary Session
 Feb 13
Midterm
6 General Relativity,
Black Holes 		Feb 16
Postulates of GR 		Feb 18
Principle of Equivalence 		Feb 20
Geodesics, metric
Homework 3 due in class
7 Feb 23
Schwarzschild geometry 		Feb 25
Spacetime/Penrose diagrams 		Feb 27
River Model of BHs
8 Mar 1
Schwarzschild wormhole 		Mar 3 Mar 5
Homework 4 due in class
In class Project 2: River Model
9 Mar 8
Charged Black Holes 		Mar 10
Rotating Black Holes 		Mar 12
Fiske: "Black Holes"
10 Mar 15
Hawking radiation 		Mar 17
Homework 5 due in class
Summary Session
 Mar 19
Midterm
11   Spring Break
12 Cosmology Mar 29
Hubble expansion 		Mar 31
Geometry 		Apr 2
FRW metric
13 Apr 5
Friedmann equations 		Apr 7
Matter, radiation, vacuum 		Apr 9
14 Apr 12
Cosmic Microwave Background 		Apr 14
Inflation
Homework 6 due in class
 Apr 16
In class Project 3
15 Apr 19
Dark Matter 		Apr 21
Primordial Nucleosynthesis 		Apr 23
Fiske: "Big Bang"
16 Apr 26
Time 		Apr 28
Homework 7 due in class
Summary Session
 Apr 30
Summary Session
17   Tuesday May 4
10:30am-1pm Final
    

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