ASTR 3740 Black Holes Spring 2021: Timetable
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ASTR 3740 Black Holes Spring 2021: Timetable| Week | Topic | Monday | Wednesday | Friday | |||||
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| 1 | Special Relativity | Jan 11 | Jan 13 | Jan 15
Organization |
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| 2 | Jan 18
Martin Luther King day |
Jan 20
What is spacetime? What are forces? |
Jan 22
Postulates, Paradoxes, Spacetime diagrams |
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| 3 | Jan 25
Simultaneity, time dilation paradox |
Jan 27
Lorentz transformation Spacetime wheel
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Jan 29
Lorentz contraction paradox Trip to αCen |
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| 4 | Feb 1
Video on Special Relativity: The Mechanical Universe Lessons 41-44 41: The Michelson-Morley Experiment 42: The Lorentz Transformation
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Feb 3
Energy-momentum |
Feb 5
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| 5 | Feb 8
The Rules of 4D Perspective Redshift factor |
Feb 10
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Feb 12
In class help session on Problem Set 2 Twin Paradox |
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| 6 |
General Relativity,
Black Holes Falling into a Black Hole Inside Black Holes |
Feb 15
Postulates of GR |
Feb 17
Wellness day |
Feb 19
Principle of Equivalence |
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| 7 | Feb 22
Center of the Galaxy Geodesics Metric |
Feb 24
Schwarzschild geometry
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Feb 26
Journey into a Schwarzschild BH River Model of BHs Gullstrand and Painlevé Embedding diagram (pdf) |
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| 8 | Mar 1
Spacetime diagrams |
Mar 3
The singularity is a not a point Schwarzschild wormhole |
Mar 5
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| 9 | Mar 8
Collapse to a black hole |
Mar 10
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope No-hair theorem Journey into a Reissner-Nordström (charged) black hole The Reissner-Nordström waterfall
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Mar 12
Penrose diagrams Rotating Black Holes |
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| 10 | Mar 15
Snow day Mass inflation Inside black holes |
Mar 17
Gravitational Waves
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Mar 19
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| 11 | Mar 22
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Mar 24
Hawking radiation (web) Hawking radiation (notes) |
Mar 25
Wellness day |
Mar 26
No class |
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| 12 | Cosmology | Mar 29
Chapter 10, p. 254 of book |
Mar 31
Hubble diagram of Type Ia supernovae |
Apr 2
Cosmic Microwave Background Galaxy Clustering |
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| 13 | Apr 5
FLRW metric (notes 3.16) Chapter 10, p. 230 of book Friedmann equations (notes 3.22) |
Apr 7
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Apr 9
Chapter 10, p. 236 of book Matter, radiation, vacuum (notes 3.29) Evolution of the Universe |
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| 14 | Apr 12
Cosmic Microwave Background (notes 3.34) Cosmic Microwave Background |
Apr 14
Horizon (notes 3.40)
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Apr 16
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| 15 | Apr 19
Inflation (notes 3.45) On line FCQs open |
Apr 21
Dark Matter (notes 3.55)
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Apr 23
Time (notes 4.1, after 3.65) |
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| 16 | Apr 26
On line FCQs due by 11.59pm
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Apr 28
Story |
Apr 30
Reading day (no class) | Saturday May 1
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