Black Holes

Daily Schedule Term 3

Monday, Oct. 28 — No class (last day of Term 2-3 break)
Thursday, Oct. 31 — Continue your study of Chapter 7 of Spacetime Physics to the end of Section 7.5, p. 206 — Problem Set 8, with due date delayed to the beginning of this Thursday’s class, is here

Monday, Nov. 4 — Study Chapter 1 of Exploring Black Holes through Section 1-7, p. 1-13 — Problem Set 9 is here and in your file folders and two groups of you have volunteered for presentations as noted in the problem set — Discussion of the Principle of Extremal Aging — Spherical polar coordinates — The “reduced” radius
Thursday, Nov. 7 — Study Chapter 2 of Exploring Black Holes through p. 2-20 — Problem Set 10 is here and in your file folders and a group (consisting of Eden and Sasha) will present the full Black Hole Company Construction Problem

Monday, Nov. 11 — Problem Set 11 is here and in your file folders — Finish reading Chapter 2 — We discussed the relation between E, p, h, λ, and ν for photons, and contrasted it with the relation between E, p, and m for massive particles* — Presentation: Walker and Rebecca, the Zeno’s Paradox problem
Thursday, Nov. 14 — Problem Set 12 is here and in your file folders — No new reading assignment (just continue to consolidate your understanding of Chapter 2) — Presentation: Eli and Eden, the Chesapeake Bay problem

Monday, Nov. 18 — Exam 2 covering everything from Chapter 4 to Section 7.5 of Spacetime Physics, and Chapters 1 and 2 of Exploring Black Holes
Thursday, Nov. 21 — Study Chapter 3 through Section 3-6 (through p. 3-18) — We need two groups of two presenters from among those that didn’t present the last two times, so that would be Jeremy, Kel, Rania, and Sasha — The two topics I can imagine being good to present are Sample Problem 2 (p. 3-22) and Sample Problem 3 (p. 3-25) — Problem Set 13 is here and in your file folders

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