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Exams and Presentations Exam I Review Sheet, Answers to Select Questions Class Presentation Guidelines Review for Final - in progress Books The Science of Interstellar Interstellar: The Complete Screenplay and Selected Storyboards Professor Brand's Blackboards Introduction to Physics First Day Slides - (Herman PDF) Window to the Dark Side of the Universe - (Herman PDF) When Black Holes Collide - (Herman PDF) Time Dilation Explained - (Herman PDF) Interstellar - Mega Waves Surfing On 'Interstellar' Tidal Waves Ocean Tides Explained Action of Tides Video Gravitational Slingshots How do spacecraft navigate in space ? (16:57) Cassini-Huygens Mission Cassini trajectory Routing Cassini through space to Titan - BBC (3:33) Cassini takes the first plunge \| Daily Planet (1:59) Cassini End of Mission Commentary (1:28:15) A lawsuit ... Imaging Gargantua History of Telescopes 400 Years OF Telescopic Discovery.History to Present (11:29) Hubble Telescope - What is it looking at now? The 1995 Hubble photo that changed astronomy (5:26) Hubble at 30 (54:46) James Webb Space Telescope site James Webb Space Telescope (11:26) How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies TED Talk (15:25) by Natasha Hurley-Walker The Story of the Very Large Array (24:23) The VLA Site Square Kilometer Array Gravitational Lensing Twin Quasar Einstein Ring Supernova Einstein Cross The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing (13:31) Wikipedia https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_blackholes_event.html Spinning Black Holes (10:13) Building Gargantua (4:05) The Art and Science of Special Effects - TED Talk NASA Visualization Double Negative Visual Effects, Interstellar page Gravitational Lensing Paper on Imaging for Interstellar or here Movies in Paper Other Visualizations Riazuelo, Extreme black hole Black hole flight simulator Color Animation of a Black Hole with Accretion Disk (0.33) Dust Bowl Introduction to the Dust Bowl (5 min of Ken Burns Film) Dust Bowl - A 1950s Documentary (22:51) Black Sunday Woody Guthrie Interstellar Travel Lightsail 2 Bill Nye Explains the Science Behind Solar Sails (10:03) How to Sail on Starlight (11:38) Black Hole Zoom-Whirl Orbit (4,1,3) (4:27) Black Hole Zoom-Whirl Orbit (2,0,1) (1:30) Alpha Centauri Artemis Plan, Artemis Site NASA History Timeline, NASA TV Humans in Space Centripetal Motion - 2001 A Space Odessey (2:15) Can We Create Artificial Gravity? (6:33) Coriolis Effect in a Rotating Space Habitat Living in Artificial Gravity SpaceX Starship and The Von Braun Rotating Space Station (24:36) 2020 Nobel Prize Nobel Prize Press release Physics Today Article Sir Roger Penrose in Conversation with Janna Levin (1:18:54) Gravitational Collapse and Space-time Singularities Paper Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole TED Talk (16:56) Interview with Reinhard Genzel (14:25) Wormholes Instructions for Building a Wormhole Flight Through a Wormhole Visualizing Interstellar's Wormhole What A Trip Through A Wormhole Would Look Like (1:24) AJP Paper Morris and Thorne paper Wormhole Simulations Gravitational Waves Listening for Einstein's Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe - (Herman PDF) Also in When Black Holes Collide - (Herman PDF) Hulse-Taylor Pulsar PSR B1913+16 (2:54) * What the Binary Pulsar Can Tell Us (5:53) Panel Discussion The Hulse-Taylor binary neutron stars explained by Joseph Taylor (2:48) Exploring Binary Pulsars - Hulse/Taylor (11:18) LIGO, Virgo, LSC Media (Sites) The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves (9:06) LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatory (7:31) Interferometer EPISODE 1 - LIGO: A DISCOVERY THAT SHOOK THE WORLD (11:44) * Weber Gravitational Wave Observatory relic (1:05) John Wheeler - Thoughts on gravitational radiation. Joseph Weber (4:11) [Part of a collection] First Image of a Black Hole Inside the black hole image that made history TED Talk (11:29) First Image of a Black Hole (5:28) Press Conference (52:36) Q&A with 2020 Nobel laureate Roger Penrose (27:38) The Fourth Dimension The Ends of Time - 7 min talk on What is time? (Herman - PDF) Is Time Real or an Illusion? - Expanded Talk (Herman - PPT) Interstellar Dimensions (Herman PDF) Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - html book Sequels and other sources like Sphereland TED-Ed 5 minute story Flatland - The Film (1:39:55) The Movie Trailer, A Review Flatland 2: Sphereland (1:57) Scientist of the Day - Edwin Abbott Abbott The Time Machine (1960) (3:52) Tesseract Rotations (5:00) 4th Dimension - Tesseract, 4th Dimension Made Easy - Carl Sagan (9:29) Gravity Brane Picture Particles and String Theory Particle Slides (Herman PPT) String Theory - Brian Greene (19:09) Michio Kaku - Are there Extra Dimensions? (11:32) What are the Strings in String Theory? (16:37) Why String Theory is Right (16:47), or Why String Theory is Wrong (18:38) Superstrings (8:20) Extra Dimensions Explained (8:11) PBS 2003 - Brian Greene - Based on the book The Elegant Universe Part 1 The Elegant Universe Part 2 Calabi–Yau Manifold Feynman Diagrams Dark Matter and Dark Energy Precession of Mercury Galaxy Rotation Curve Coma Cluster Bullet Cluster from Chandra X-Ray Observatory The Search for Dark Matter - TED (15:43) - 2020 Shedding Light on Dark Matter TED (16:09) - 2008 Cosmic microwave background (CMB) Discovering the Cosmic Microwave Background with Robert Wilson (21:55) What was Bell Labs? Karl Jansky, Radio Telescope The Wow! Signal - from Sagittarius, SETI - Are We Alone? (1:10:13) Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), Images Modern Anomalies Miscellaneous Tidal Bores Qiantang River Bore Resonance (9:49) 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse (from TWC's Weather Caught On Camera) (6:03) A better description of resonance (12:37) Astrophysical Black Holes in the Physical Universe (PDF) Brian Greene Interview (11:34) Alcubierre Drive: Warp Speed - Star Trek fantasy or plausible? (12:00) Professor Brand's blackboard Demos Wolfram Demo - https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/3DKerrBlackHoleOrbits/ Storyboarder Intro to Storyboarding (8:22) How to draw A-grade storyboards (13:35) Storyboarding For People Who Can't Draw (Like Me!) : FRIDAY 101 (6:31) Lessons From The Parasite Storyboards (7:49) Storyboard Examples in Film, More Examples Dr. Mann Docking (4:15) Mann's Betrayal (3:09) The Tesseract Wikipedia Entry Landing in the Tesseract (2:52) Across all Dimensions and Time- Interstellar Extras (9:01) Tesseract Rotations (5:00) 4th Dimension - Tesseract, 4th Dimension Made Easy - Carl Sagan (9:29) Interstellar: Ending Explained (20:48) Weird Ideas Making sense of string theory \| Brian Greene In the Movies Movie Night with a Physicist (21:27) Mathematics in the Movies Time Travel Feature Films Science and Film Turning Science to Movie Magic Interstellar Explained - Did they get it right? Top

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