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 | | | | Introduction to the Class | | | | Edmund Bertschinger | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | The Universe: Questions You Were Afraid to Ask | | | | Edwin Taylor and Kristin Burgess | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | Global Positioning System | | | | Thomas Herring | | | | - Slides (PDF) Courtesy of Thomas Herring.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | Einstein's Field Equations | | | | Edmund Bertschinger | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | Tracing Einstein's Development of the Special Relativity Theory | | | | Gerald Holton | | | | - Einstein's SR Paper: First Three Pages of Einstein's Original 1905 Paper on Special Relativity. (PDF) Courtesy of Gerald Holton.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | | | | Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy --Sagittarius A* | | | | Frederick K. Baganoff | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 | | | | X-Ray Binaries and the Search for Black Holes | | | | Jeffrey McClintock | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 10 | | | | The Universe and Three Examples | | | | Alan Guth | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 12 | | | | LIGO: Detecting Gravitational Waves | | | | Nergis Mavalvala | | | | - Slides (Link to Slide Show)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 13 | | | | Cosmic Structure Formation; From Inflation to Galaxies | | | | Edmund 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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