------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCHEDULE FOR ASTRONOMY 130 Black Holes in the Universe - Gravity's Fatal Attraction 2025 Spring Offering ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abbreviations used below for the following books: * BR = Begelman & Rees, "Gravity's Fatal Attraction" (Third Edition) * TH = Thorne, "Black Holes and Time Warps" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Week 01 - Jan 13 to Jan 17 - Introduction, Newtonian Gravity ------------------------------------------------------------ BR - Preface, Chapter 1 TH - Forward, Intro, Preface, Prologue, Chapter 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 02 - Jan 20 to Jan 24 - Special Relativity, General Relativity ------------------------------------------------------------------- BR - Chapter 1 TH - Chapter 1, Chapter 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- Week 03 - Jan 27 to Jan 31 - General Relativity, Curvature ---------------------------------------------------------- BR - Chapter 1 TH - Chapter 2, Chapter 3 -------------------------------------------------- Week 04 - Feb 03 to Feb 07 - Stars and Their Fates -------------------------------------------------- BR - Chapter 2 TH - Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Week 05 - Feb 10 to Feb 14 - Black Holes in Binaries and Accretion Disks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BR - Chapter 3 TH - Chapter 8 --------------------------------------------- Week 06 - Feb 17 to Feb 21 - Gamma-Ray Bursts --------------------------------------------- BR - Chapter 7 TH - None Review the Web site: http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov Focus on learning about the Swift satellite and the basics of gamma-ray bursts. Also, check out some of the press releases based on Swift results. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Week 07 - Feb 24 to Feb 28 - Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes ------------------------------------------------------------------ BR - Chapter 4 TH - None Feb 26 - FIRST MIDTERM EXAM --------------------------------------------------- Week 08 - Mar 03 to Mar 07 - Active Galactic Nuclei --------------------------------------------------- BR - Chapter 5 TH - Chapter 9 --------------------------------------------------------- Week 09 - Mar 17 to Mar 21 - Active Galactic Nuclei, Jets --------------------------------------------------------- BR - Chapter 5, Chapter 6 TH - Chapter 9 Mar 17 - NOTECARD ASSOCIATED WITH MIDTERM PAPER DUE --------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 10 - Mar 24 to Mar 28 - Quiet Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei and Cosmic Feedback --------------------------------------------------------------------- BR - Chapter 8, Chapter 9 TH - None ------------------------------------------------ Week 11 - Mar 31 to Apr 04 - Gravitational Waves ------------------------------------------------ BR - Chapter 11 TH - Chapter 10 Review the Web sites: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/ https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news Focus on learning about the recent detections of gravitational waves from binary black-hole and binary neutron-star mergers. Also, check out some of the latest press releases and explanatory videos. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 12 - Apr 07 to Apr 11 - Kerr Black Holes and the No-Hair Theorem --------------------------------------------------------------------- BR - Chapter 10 TH - Chapter 7 Apr 07 - MIDTERM PAPER DUE IN CLASS --------------------------------------------------- Week 13 - Apr 14 to Apr 18 - Black Hole Evaporation --------------------------------------------------- BR - Chapter 12 TH - Chapter 12 Apr 16 - SECOND MIDTERM EXAM ------------------------------------------ Week 14 - Apr 21 to Apr 25 - Singularities ------------------------------------------ BR - Chapter 12 TH - Chapter 13 ------------------------------------------------------------ Week 15 - Apr 28 to May 02 - Black Holes and Child Universes ------------------------------------------------------------ BR - None TH - None "Cosmological Natural Selection as the Explanation for the Complexity of the Universe" Lee Smolin Physica A, Volume 340, Issue 4, pages 705-713 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004PhyA..340..705S --------------------------------------------- Week 16 - May 05 to May 09 - Final Exams Week --------------------------------------------- The date and time of the Astro 130 final exam have not yet been announced. I'll let you know when these are available. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------