• Instructor contact info., course location, final date, outline of topics
• Grading Policy, Final paper description
• Course and Sequence Description
• Discussion section Mondays 1pm-2pm in HSS 2150; TA office hours: Fridays 1pm, SERF 403; Griest office hours: Mondays 2pm, SERF 337

Reading in Hartle: Gravity textbook:

1. Jan 8, 2013: Chapters 1-4
2. Jan 15, 2013: Chapter 5, especially 5.4 (read the rest very lightly),
3. Jan 22, 2013: Chapter 6
4. Jan 22, 2013: Page through and look at Chapters 7 and 8; we will be skipping most of this or doing it differently, as described in class notes
5. Jan 28, 2013: Chapter 9
6. Feb 5, 2013: Chapter 11
7. Feb 12, 2013: Chapter 12 and Chapter 15
8. Feb 28, 2013: Chapter 13 and Chapter 16

1. Due Tues Jan 15, 2013: hw1.pdf (all problems worth 10 points except #1 worth 12) (average: 76% +- 18%)
2. Due Thurs Jan 24, 2013: hw2.pdf (average: 67% +- 25%)
3. Due Tues Jan 29, 2013: hw3.pdf (average: 60% +- 27%)
4. Due Tues Feb 5, 2013: hw4.pdf (homework worth 50 points)(average: 88% +- 23%)
5. Due Tues Feb 12, 2013: hw5.pdf (average: 72% +- 32%)
6. Due Thurs Feb 21, 2013: hw6.pdf (average: 82% +- 17%)
7. Due Thurs Feb 28, 2013: hw7.pdf
8. Due Tues Mar 5, 2013: hw8.pdf
9. Due Tues March 12, 2013: hw9.pdf

1. Tues Jan 8, 2013: lecture.8jan13 (Intro and tour of Universe) with figures figs.8jan13
2. Thurs Jan 10, 2013: lecture.10jan13 (Metrics continued)
3. Tues Jan 15, 2013: lecture.15jan13 (General and Special Relativity; Gravitational time dilation) with figures figs.15jan13-1 and figs.15jan13-2
4. Thurs Jan 17, 2013: lecture.17jan13 (Geodesics: Moving in ``straight lines" through curved spacetime; Euler-Lagrange)
5. Tues Jan 22, 2013: lecture.22jan13 (Equivalence Principle, Gravitational Redshift and Geodesics of the Schwarzschild Metric)
6. Thurs Jan 24, 2013: lecture.24jan13 (Distances and times around a black hole; embedding diagrams) with figures figs.24jan13
7. Tues Jan 29, 2013: lecture.29jan13 (Shooting light rays into black holes, Inside a black hole, Orbits in the Schwarzschild metric, Effective potentials) with figures figs.29jan13-1 and figs.29jan13-2
8. Thurs Jan 31, 2013: lecture.31jan13 (Extracting energy from a black hole; light orbits) with figure figs.31jan13
9. Tues Feb 5, 2013: lecture.5feb13 (Light bending and gravitational lensing)
10. Thurs Feb 7, 2011: lecture.7feb13 (Some questions and puzzles around black holes) with figures figs.7feb13
11. Tues Feb 12, 2013: lecture.12feb13 (Death by Black Hole)
12. Thurs Feb 14, 2013: lecture.14feb13 (Where do Metrics Come From: Einstein's Field Equations)
13. Tues Feb 19, 2013: lecture.19feb13 (Inside the Black Hole: Kruskal-Szerkeres coordinates; General Black Holes) with figures figs.19feb13
14. Thurs Feb 21 and Tues Feb 26, 2013: (Rotating Black Holes; the Kerr metric; Inside the Kerr hole) lecture.21-26feb13 with figures figs.21feb13-1 figs.21feb13-2 figs.21feb13-3
15. Thurs 28, 2013: lecture.28feb13 (Can Anything Escape a Black Hole? Hawking Radiation)
16. Tues Mar 5, 2013: lecture.5mar13 (Powerpoint show of BH observations; BH's and entropy)