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™.
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1 |
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Introduction to the Class |
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Edmund Bertschinger |
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2 |
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The Universe: Questions You Were Afraid to Ask |
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Edwin Taylor and Kristin Burgess |
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4 |
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Global Positioning System |
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Thomas Herring |
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- Slides (PDF) Courtesy of Thomas Herring.
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5 |
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Einstein's Field Equations |
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Edmund Bertschinger |
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6 |
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Tracing Einstein's Development of the Special Relativity Theory |
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Gerald Holton |
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- Einstein's SR Paper: First Three Pages of Einstein's Original 1905 Paper on Special Relativity. (PDF) Courtesy of Gerald Holton.
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7 |
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Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy --Sagittarius A* |
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Frederick K. Baganoff |
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8 |
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X-Ray Binaries and the Search for Black Holes |
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Jeffrey McClintock |
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10 |
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The Universe and Three Examples |
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Alan Guth |
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12 |
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LIGO: Detecting Gravitational Waves |
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Nergis Mavalvala |
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- Slides (Link to Slide Show)
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Cosmic Structure Formation; From Inflation to Galaxies |
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Edmund Bertschinger |
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- 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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