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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

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The "Lecture Notes" for this course include slides, pdfs, and/or videos for each of the Seminar Sessions.  There are no Lecture Notes for weeks 3, 9, 11, and 14.

These files are also available on iTunes® and YouTube™.

WEEK #TOPICSLECTURERSNOTES / SLIDES / VIDEOS
1Introduction to the ClassEdmund Bertschinger
2The Universe: Questions You Were Afraid to AskEdwin Taylor and Kristin Burgess
4Global Positioning SystemThomas Herring
  • Slides (PDF) Courtesy of Thomas Herring.
5Einstein's Field EquationsEdmund Bertschinger
6Tracing Einstein's Development of the Special Relativity TheoryGerald Holton
  • Einstein's SR Paper: First Three Pages of Einstein's Original 1905 Paper on Special Relativity. (PDF) Courtesy of Gerald Holton.
7Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy --Sagittarius A*Frederick K. Baganoff
8X-Ray Binaries and the Search for Black HolesJeffrey McClintock
10The Universe and Three ExamplesAlan Guth
12LIGO: Detecting Gravitational WavesNergis Mavalvala
  • Slides (Link to Slide Show)
13Cosmic Structure Formation; From Inflation to GalaxiesEdmund Bertschinger
  • Slides (Link to Slide Show)
  • Video (RM - 56K) (RM - 80K) (RM - 220K) Animation (6.2 MB Mpeg) showing gas and dark matter forming a galaxy in a numerical simulation of galaxy formation. From Matthias Steinmetz, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam.



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