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Introduction - PDF

Class Notes

Terms to Know

Tablet PC/Laptop Links

• Student Tablet User Group YouTube Videos
• Note Taking
  • OneNote
  • Evernote
  • Comparision of OneNote and Evernote
  • Jarnal, Gournal, Xournal, NoteLab - Open Source and Free
  • Free PDF Xchange
• Sticky Notes
  • Stickies
• The Student Tablet PC site
• Windows Journal, Windows Journal Viewer

Cosmology

• http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/beginners/introduction.html
• http://www.spaceandmotion.com/cosmology-history-astronomy-universe-space.htm
• faculty.salisbury.edu/~jwhoward/astro108/html/Cosmology.ppt
• The Shapely-Curtis Debate

Special Relativity

• Think Like Einstein
• How Did Einstein Discover Relativity?
• Special Relativity - Brief Overview
• Length Contraction
• Dummies guide to Special Relativity
• Relativity Summary
• Introduction to Relativity
• The Lightcone - Intro to Relativity
• Relativity Notes - Math Intense
• Relativity Lecture Notes - With Spacetime Diagrams
• Cool Physics Movies

General Relativity

• Cambridge Relativity
• The Light Cone
• Spacetime
• Spacetime Wrinkles
  • Movies from the Edge of Spacetime
  • Fulfilling Einstein's Dream
• The Elegant Universe
• Spacetime 101
• GR for Students
• Gravitational Waves
  • LISA http://lisa.jpl.nasa.gov/
  • LIGO http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/

Black Holes

• Smallest Black Hole
• Black Holes and Neutron Stars
• Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars
• Black Holes - Cambridge
• Black Holes FAQ
• Wikipedia Black Hole
• Relativity and Black Holes - Eastern Tennessee State University
• Falling into a Black Hole Movies
• Black Hole Thermodynamics
• Eddington-Finkelstein Maple
• YouTube Videos
  • Pulsars and Neutron Stars (4:23 min)
  • Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Other Dead Stars (9 min), Part 2 (6:41 min)
  • Extreme Physics of Black Holes (8 min), Part 2 (7 min)
  • Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and The Creator (10 min)
  • Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs, Space and Time - Simulation
  • Another Simulation
  • Cosmic Holes (1 of 5)
  • General Relativity: Cosmic Tunnels / Worm Holes
  • Supermassive Black Holes (1/5)

Dark Matter

• Cosmic Variance - Dark Matter
  • Optical
  • X-Ray
  • and more
• Gravitational Lensing
• The Cosmic Triangle
• The Cosmic Triangle Paper
• Chandra Movies: MACS J0025.4-1222
• Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Bullet Cluster

Articles

• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology-30s/ - Reading for 2nd Class

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