ASTR 3740 Black Holes Spring 2007: Timetable
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ASTR 3740 Black Holes Spring 2007: Timetable| Week | Topic | Monday | Wednesday | Friday | |||||
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| 1 | Special Relativity | Jan 15
Martin Luther King day |
Jan 17
Organization |
Jan 19
Philosophy |
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| 2 | Jan 22
History |
Jan 24
Postulates |
Jan 26
Spacetime diagrams |
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| 3 | Jan 29
Video on Special Relativity: The Mechanical Universe Lessons 41-44 |
Jan 31
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Feb 2
Spacetime Wheel |
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| 4 | Feb 5
What things actually look like at relativistic speeds |
Feb 7
Energy-momentum |
Feb 9
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| 5 | Feb 12
Redshift
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Feb 14
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Feb 16
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General Relativity, Black Holes |
Feb 19
Postulates of GR |
Feb 21
Principle of Equivalence |
Feb 23
Geodesics, metric
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| 7 | Feb 26
Schwarzschild geometry |
Feb 28
Spacetime/Penrose diagrams |
Mar 2
River Model of BHs |
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| 8 | Mar 5
Schwarzschild wormhole |
Mar 7
Charged Black Holes |
Mar 9
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| 9 | Mar 12
Mass inflation |
Mar 14
Rotating Black Holes |
Th Mar 15
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Mar 16
Fiske: "Black Holes" |
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| 10 | Mar 19
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Mar 21
Prof. Webster Cash "MAXIM" |
Mar 23 No class | ||||||
| 11 | Spring Break | ||||||||
| 12 | Cosmology | Apr 2
Hubble expansion |
Apr 4
Geometry
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Apr 6
FRW metric |
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| 13 | Apr 9
Friedmann equations |
Apr 11
Matter, radiation, vacuum |
Apr 13
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| 14 | Apr 16
Cosmic Microwave Background |
Apr 18
Inflation
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Apr 20
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| 15 | Apr 23
Dark Matter |
Apr 25
Primordial Nucleosynthesis |
Apr 27
Fiske: "Big Bang" |
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| 16 | Apr 30
Time |
May 2
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May 4
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| 17 | Wednesday May 9
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