|
Date |
|
Day |
Chap |
Topic |
|
Jan |
21 |
R |
|
Black Holes, White Dwarfs and
Neutron Stars |
|
|
26 |
T |
|
Special Relativity |
|
|
28 |
R |
|
Minkowski Spacetime/Diagrams |
|
Feb |
2 |
T |
|
Kinematics/Dynamics in Special
Relativity |
|
|
4 |
R |
1 |
EP and GR time dilation/Curved
Space |
|
|
9 |
T |
|
Line elements/geodesics/Curved
Spacetime |
|
|
11 |
R |
|
Vectors and Covectors/Tensors |
|
|
16 |
T |
2 |
Covariant Derivative/Christoffel
Symbols/GR Review |
|
|
18 |
R |
|
Wormhole Metric/Schwarzschild
Solution |
|
|
23 |
T |
|
Newtonian Orbits/ Killing
Equation |
|
|
25 |
R |
|
Schwarzschild Geodesics/Infall/Circular
Orbits |
|
Mar |
2 |
T |
|
Light Rays/Classical
Tests/Deflection of Light |
|
|
4 |
R |
|
Falling into BH/Capture/Shadow
and Photon Sphere |
|
|
9 |
T |
|
Stellar Collapse/Eddington-Finkelstein/Kruskal |
|
|
11 |
R |
3 |
Penrose Diagrams/Lensing, BH
Shadow |
|
|
16 |
T |
|
Midterm
Exam |
|
|
18 |
R |
|
Rotating Black Holes/Event
Horizons |
|
|
23 |
T |
|
Ergosphere/Invariants |
|
|
25 |
R |
|
Radial Equation/Frame
Dragging/Free Fall/ZAMOs |
|
|
30 |
T |
|
Photon Orbits/Capture -
New Black Hole Picture |
|
Apr |
1 |
R |
|
Holiday |
|
|
6 |
T |
4 |
Circular Orbits |
|
|
8 |
R |
|
Polar Orbits/Penrose Process
and Diagram/BH Spin Up |
|
|
13 |
T |
|
(Black Hole) Thermodynamics
and Entropy |
|
|
15 |
R |
|
Hawking Radiation/Information
Paradox/Holograms |
|
|
20 |
T |
|
Wormholes and Time Travel |
|
|
22 |
R |
5 |
Other Black Holes |
|
|
27 |
T |
|
Merging Black Holes and
Gravitational Waves |
|
|
29 |
R |
|
Reading Day |
|
May |
4 |
T |
|
Final Exam -
8:00-11:00 |