ASTRO 210: Black Holes in the Universe
Section 1, Spring 2013
Lecture: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Location: Rita
Hollings Science Center, room 126
Time: MWF 2:00-2:50 pm
Instructor: Dr. George
Chartas
Office: 129 RHSC
Office
hours: MWF : 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Phone: (843)
953-3609
Email:
chartasg@cofc.edu
Schedule
The required textbook for the course is GravityŐs
Fatal Attraction, Black Holes in the Universe Second Edition by Mitchell
Begelman and Martin Rees. Recommended textbook for the course is Black Holes
and Time Warps, EinsteinŐs Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne. Please let me
know if you have a conflict with any of the test and final exam dates.
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9 Jan |
Ch. 1 Gravity Triumphant |
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11 Jan |
Ch. 1 |
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14 Jan |
Ch. 1 |
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16 Jan |
Ch. 2 Stars and Their Fates |
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18 Jan |
Ch. 2 |
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21 Jan |
Martin Luther King Holiday observed --
No Classes |
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23 Jan |
Ch. 2 |
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25 Jan |
Ch. 3 Black Holes in our
Backyard |
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28 Jan |
Ch. 3 |
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30 Jan |
Ch. 3 |
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1 Feb |
Ch. 4 Galaxies and Their Nuclei |
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4 Feb |
Ch. 4 |
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6 Feb |
Ch. 4 |
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8 Feb |
Ch. 5 Quasars and Kin |
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11 Feb |
Ch. 5 |
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13 Feb |
Ch. 5 |
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15 Feb |
Test 1, chapters 1-5 |
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18 Feb |
Ch. 6 Jets |
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20 Feb |
Ch. 6 |
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22 Feb |
Ch. 6 |
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25 Feb |
Ch. 7 Blasts from the Past |
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27 Feb |
Ch. 7 |
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1 Mar |
Ch. 7 |
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4 Mar |
Spring Break |
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6 Mar |
Spring Break |
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8 Mar |
Spring Break |
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11 Mar |
Presentations I |
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Extreme Effects Near a Black Hole Joshua Blackie and
Zane Lycke |
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13 Mar |
Ch. 8 Black Holes in
Hibernation |
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15 Mar |
Ch. 8 |
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18 Mar |
Presentations II |
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Microquasars Sean Cato and Samuel
Cooper |
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20 Mar |
Ch. 8 |
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22 Mar |
Test 2, chapters 6-8 |
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25 Mar |
Ch. 9 Cosmic Feedback |
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27 Mar |
Presentations III |
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Additional
"large" or "small" dimensions to our Universe as possible
explanations for the weakness of gravity and "theories of
everything" (with implications for
microscopic black hole formation) Daniel Barman , Sergio Hurtado, Maxwell Lynn |
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29 Mar |
Ch. 9 |
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1 Apr |
Presentations IV |
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The Theory of Cosmological Natural Selection Joshua Watts, Cecillia
Rogers, and Kara Perrino |
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3 Apr |
Ch. 10 Checking up on Einstein |
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5 Apr |
Ch. 10 |
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8 Apr |
Ch. 10 |
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10 Apr |
Presentations V |
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How things change as they
approach the speed of light, and how space time shifts around a black hole. Blake Hoffmeyer (TBA) Jennifer Blaine |
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12 Apr |
Ch. 11 Through the Horizon |
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15 Apr |
Ch. 11 |
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17 Apr |
Presentations VI |
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(TBA) Jacob Jameson,
Dominique Awis |
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19 Apr |
Ch. 11 |
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22 Apr |
Presentation VII |
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Hawking Radiation and its Effects on the Life Span of Black Holes Kathleen Powell and
Julia Margolis |
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24 Apr |
Review |
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29 Apr |
FINAL EXAM: Noon-3:00pm, rm 126 |
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