ASTR 3740 Black Holes Spring 2019: Timetable
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| 1 | Special Relativity | Jan 14
Organization |
Jan 16
Philosophy |
Jan 18
Postulates, Paradoxes, Simultaneity, Spacetime diagrams |
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| 2 | Jan 21
Martin Luther King day |
Jan 23
Michelson interferometer demo Lorentz transformation, Time dilation paradox
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Jan 25
Spacetime wheel, Lorentz contraction paradox |
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| 3 | Jan 28
Trip to αCen Pole-in-barn paradox |
Jan 30
Video on Special Relativity: The Mechanical Universe Lessons 41-44
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Feb 1
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| 4 | Feb 4
Energy-momentum |
Feb 6
The Rules of 4D Perspective Redshift factor
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Feb 8
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| 5 |
General Relativity,
Black Holes Falling into a Black Hole Inside Black Holes |
Feb 11
Bhupendra Mishra (JILA researcher) will be lecturing all this week on astronomical black holes. X-Ray Binaries X-ray Binaries containing a Black Hole |
Feb 13
Accretion Disks |
Feb 15
Galactic Center |
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| 6 | Feb 18
Postulates of GR Principle of Equivalence |
Feb 20
Geodesics |
Feb 22
Metric |
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| 7 | Feb 25
Curvature |
Feb 27
Embedding diagram (pdf) |
Mar 1
Journey into a Schwarzschild BH River Model of BHs |
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| 8 | Mar 4
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Mar 6
Collapse to a black hole
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Mar 8
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| 9 | Mar 11
Spacetime diagrams Schwarzschild wormhole |
Mar 13
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Mar 15
Charged Black Holes Penrose diagrams |
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| 10 | Mar 18
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Mar 20
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Mar 22
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| 11 | Spring Break | ||||||||
| 12 | Cosmology | Apr 1
Overview |
Apr 3
Hubble expansion |
Apr 5
FLRW metric |
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| 13 | Apr 8
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Apr 10
Event Horizon Telescope |
Apr 12
Friedmann equations Matter, radiation, vacuum |
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| 14 | Apr 15
Cosmic Microwave Background |
Apr 17
Horizon
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Apr 19
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| 15 | Apr 22
On line FCQs open Inflation |
Apr 24
Rotating Black Holes
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Apr 26
Hawking radiation |
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| 16 | Apr 29
On line FCQs due by 11.59pm
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May 1
Story |
May 3
No class |
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| 17 | Tuesday May 7
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Updated 2019 May 7