Physics 161, Winter 2010

Black Holes, General Relativity and the Galaxy

Kim Griest

Discussion section Tuesdays 5-5:50pm, York Hall 4080A

Assignments

Reading in Hartle: Gravity textbook:

  1. (Jan 4, 2010): Read Chapters 1-4
  2. (Jan 19, 2010): Read Chapter.Sections 5.4, 6, 7.1, 7.5, 7.6
  3. (Jan 29, 2010): Read Chapter.Sections 9.3, 9.4
  4. (Feb 10, 2010): Read Chapter 10, Chapter 11.1
  5. (Feb 17, 2010): Read Chapter 12
  6. (Feb 23, 2010): Read Chapter 15
Homework:
  1. Due Wed Jan 13, 2010: hw1.pdf
  2. Due Wed Jan 20, 2010: hw2.pdf
  3. Due Wed Jan 27, 2010: hw3.pdf
  4. Due Wed Feb 3, 2010: hw4.pdf
  5. Due Wed Feb 10, 2010: hw5.pdf
  6. Due Wed Feb 17, 2010: hw6.pdf
  7. Due Wed Feb 24, 2010: hw7.pdf
  8. Due Wed Mar 3, 2010: hw8.pdf
  9. Due Wed Mar 10, 2010: hw9.pdf
Lectures
  1. Mon/Wed Jan 4/6, 2010: lecture.4-6jan10 (Intro and tour of Universe) with figures figs.6jan10
  3. Fri Jan 8, 2010: lecture.8jan10 (Metrics Continued)
  4. Mon Jan 11, 2010: lecture.11jan10 (General and Special Relativity) with figures figs.11jan10-1 and figs.11jan10-2
  5. Wed Jan 13, 2010: lecture.13jan10 (More Special Relativity)
  6. Fri Jan 15, 2010: lecture.15jan10 (Geodesics)
  7. Wed Jan 20, 2010: lecture.20jan10 (More Euler-Lagrange plus Gravitational Redshift)
  8. Fri Jan 22, 2010: lecture.22jan10 (Equivalence Principle: Light Bending and Gravitational Redshift; Geodesics of Schwarzschild Metric from Euler-Lagrange)
  9. Mon Jan 25, 2010: lecture.25jan10 (More practice with Metrics: Distances around a Black Hole) with figure figs.25jan10
  10. Wed Jan 27, 2010: lecture.27jan10 (Distances and Times Around and Inside a Black Hole)
  11. Fri Jan 29, 2010: lecture.29jan10 (Shooting light rays into black holes; Inside a Black Hole; Effective Potentials) with figures figs.29jan10-1 and figs.25jan10-1
  12. Mon Feb 1, 2010: lecture.1feb10 (Orbits in the Schwarzschild Metric Continued)
  13. Wed/Fri Feb 3/5, 2010: lecture.3feb10 (Geodesics and motion of Light around a Black Hole)
  14. Fri/Mon Feb 5/8, 2010: lecture.5-8feb10 (Light Bending and Gravitational Lensing)
  15. Wed Feb 10, 2010: lecture.10feb10 (What Is It Like Going Towards a Black Hole?} with figures figs.13feb08
  16. Fri Feb 12, 2010: lecture.12feb10 (Death by Black Hole)
  17. Wed Feb 17, 2010: lecture.17feb10 (Einstein's Field Equations: Where metrics come from)
  18. Fri Feb 19, 2010: lecture.19feb10 (Inside the Black Hole: Kruskal-Szerkeres Coordinates) with figures figs.19feb10
  19. Mon Feb 22, 2010: lecture.22feb10 (General Black Holes)
  20. Wed Feb 24, 2010: lecture.24feb10 (Kerr Metric: Rotating Black Holes) with figure figs.24feb10
  21. Fri Feb 26, 2010: lecture.26feb10 (Rotating Black Holes continued)
  22. Mon Mar 1, 2010: lecture.1mar10 (Inside the Kerr Black Hole) with figures figs.1mar10
  23. Wed Mar 3, 2010: lecture.3mar10 (Hawking Radiation)
  24. Fri/Mon Mar 5/8, 2010: lecture.5-8mar10 (Black Hole Entropy and Observations of Black Holes)
  25. Wed/Fri Mar 10/12, 2010: lecture.10-12mar10 (Gravitational Waves) with figures figs.10mar10-a and figs.10mar10-b