Classes are on T TH 8:00-9:15 in Lewis Room
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Past classes:
- 03/22/2005 - Spherically symmetric metric. Schwarzschild solution. [Hartle Section 9.1].
- 03/24/2005 - Schwarzschild radius. Other forms of the
Schwarzschild metric. Gravitational red-shift.
Lagrangian and geodesics. [Hartle Sections 9.2, 9.3].
- 03/29/2005 - Orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole. [Hartle
Sections 9.3].
- 04/05/2005 - Relativistic precession. Deflection of light. Radar
echo delay. PPN parameters and their measurements. [Hartle Sections
9.3, 9.4, 10.2-10.4].
- 04/06/2005 - Structure of the Schwarzschild metric. Gravitational
collapse. [Hartle Sections 12.1-12.3].
- 04/12/2005 - More on Kruskal diagram. Penrose diagrams for
Minkowski, Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström black holes and in
general. Kerr black hole. [Hartle Sections 12.4, 15.2].
- 04/13/2005 - More on rotating black holes [Hartle Sections 15.2-15.5].
- 04/19/2005 - Astrophysics of black holes. The universe
observed. [Hartle Sections 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2, 17.1-17.3].
- 04/20/2005 - The universe observed. Cosmological metrics.
Cosmological redshift. [Hartle Sections 17.1-17.3, 18.1, 18.2, 18.6].
- 04/26/2005 - Derivation of Hubble's law. Cosmological models.
Dynamics of the FRW universe. [Hartle Sections 18.3, 18.4, 18.7].
- 04/27/2005 - Cosmological horizon. More on the dynamics of the FRW
universe. Shortcomings of the standard cosmological model. Inflation.
[Hartle Sections 18.4, 18.5, 18.7, 19.1, 19.2].
- 05/03/2005 - Thermal history of the universe. Introduction to
gravitational waves. [Hartle Sections 19.1, 19.2, 23.1-23.3].
- 05/04/2005 - Linearized gravity and gravitational waves.
[Hartle Sections 23.1-23.3, 16.1-16.5].
Next class:
- 05/09/2005 - Final exam. Lewis 228 at 8:30am.
