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Reading in Hartle: Gravity textbook:

1. Jan 3, 2011: Chapters 1-4
2. Jan 13, 2011: Chapter 5, especially 5.4 (read the rest lightly),
3. Jan 13, 2011: Chapter 6
4. Jan 19, 2011: Page through and look at Chapters 7 and 8; we will be skipping most of this or doing it differently, as described in class notes
5. Jan 26, 2011: Chapter 9
6. Feb 14, 2011: Chapters 11 and 12
7. Feb 23, 2011: Chapter 15
8. Mar 2, 2011: Chapter 13 and Chapter 16

1. Due Wed Jan 12, 2011: hw1.pdf (all problems worth 10 points except #6 worth 12 and #7 worth 18)
2. Due Wed Jan 19, 2011: hw2.pdf (Problems #4 and #5 worth 20 points, all others worth 10 points)
3. Due Wed Jan 26, 2011: hw3.pdf (problems 1 and 2 worth 20, problems 3,4 worth 10, problems 5 and 6 worth 8, problem 7 worth 4)
4. Due Wed Feb 2, 2011: hw4.pdf (homework worth 40 points)
5. Due Wed Feb 9, 2011: hw5.pdf (problems 1,2,3,4 worth 15 points, problems 5,6 worth 10)
6. Due Wed Feb 16, 2011: hw6.pdf (problem 1 worth 15, problem 2 worth 20, problem 3 worth 45 points)
7. Due Wed Feb 23, 2011: hw7.pdf (problem 1 worth 20 points, all others 15)
8. Due Wed March 2, 2011: hw8.pdf
(problem 1 and 2 worth 20 points, problem 3 worth 15, problems 4 and 5 worth 10 and problem 6 worth 15)
9. Due Wed March 9, 2011: hw9.pdf
(problem 1 worth 10 points, problem 2 worth 15, problem 3 worth 20 and problem 4 worth 15)

1. Mon/Wed Jan 3/5, 2011: lecture.3-5jan11 (Intro and tour of Universe) with figures figs.6jan10
2. Fri Jan 7, 2011: lecture.7jan11 (Metrics continued)
3. Mon Jan 10, 2011: lecture.10jan11 (General and Special Relativity) with figures figs.10jan11-1 and figs.10jan11-2
4. Wed Jan 12, 2011: lecture.12jan11 (More special relativity; Gravitational time dilation)
5. Fri Jan 14, 2011: lecture.14jan11 (Geodesics: Moving in ``straight lines" through curved spacetime)
6. Wed Jan 19/ Fri Jan 21, 2011: lecture.19/21jan11 (More Euler-Lagrange, plus Gravitational Redshift)
7. Mon Jan 24, 2011: lecture.24jan11 (Geodesics of Schwarzchild Metric from Euler-Lagrange)
8. Wed Jan 26, 2011: lecture.26jan11 (Distances around a Black Hole) with figures figs.26jan11
9. Fri Jan 28, 2011: lecture.28jan11 (Shooting light into a black hole; Inside a black hole) with figures figs.28jan11
10. Mon Jan 31, 2011: lecture.31jan11 (Orbits in the Schwarzschild metric; Effective potentials) with figures figs.31jan11
11. Wed Feb 2, 2011: lecture.2feb11 (Extracting energy from a Black Hole)
12. Fri Feb 4, 2011: lecture.4feb11 (Geodesics and motion of light around a black hole) with figures figs.4feb11
13. Mon Feb 7, 2011: lecture.7feb11 (Light bending and gravitational lensing)
14. Fri Feb 11, 2011: lecture.11feb11 (Some questions and puzzles around black holes) with figures figs.11feb11
15. Mon Feb 14, 2011: lecture.14feb11 (Death by Black Hole)
16. Wed Feb 16, 2011: lecture.16feb11 (Where do Metrics Come From: Einstein's Field Equations)
17. Fri Feb 18, 2011: lecture.18feb11 (Inside the Black Hole: Kruskal-Szerkeres coordinate) with figures figs.18feb11
18. Wed Feb 23, 2011: lecture.23feb11 (General Black Holes)
19. Fri Feb 25, 2011: lecture.25feb11 (Rotating Black Holes: the Kerr Metric) with figure figs.25feb11
20. Mon Feb 28, 2011: lecture.28feb11 (Rotating Black Holes continued: the Ergosphere) with figures figs.28feb11-1 and figs.28feb11-2
21. Wed Mar 2, 2011: lecture.2mar11 (Inside the Kerr Black Hole) with figures figs.2mar11
22. Fri Mar 4, 2011: lecture.4mar11 (Can Anything Escape a Black Hole? Hawking Radiation)
23. Mon Mar 7, 2011: lecture.7mar11 (Powerpoint show of BH observations; BH's and entropy)
24. Wed Mar 9 and Fri Mar 11, 2011: lecture.11mar11 (Gravitational Waves) with figures figs.11mar11 and figs.11mar11-1