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16 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang
16 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang
The third and final part of the course begins, consisting of a series of lectures on cosmology. A brief history of how c... Read more
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14 - Pulsars
14 - Pulsars
Professor Bailyn begins with a summary of the four post-Newtonian effects of general relativity that were introduced and... Read more
6 Dec 2011
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19 - Omega and the End of the Universe
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12 - Stellar Mass Black Holes
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09 - Special and General Relativity
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The discussion of black holes continues with an introduction of the concept of event horizon. A number of problems are w... Read more
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13 - Stellar Mass Black Holes (cont.)
13 - Stellar Mass Black Holes (cont.)
Class begins with clarification of equations from the previous lecture. Four post-Newtonian gravitational effects are in... Read more
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10 - Tests of Relativity
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18 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
18 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
Professor Bailyn returns to the subject of the expansion of the universe to offer explanations that do not require belie... Read more
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17 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
17 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
Class begins with a review of magnitudes and the problem set involving magnitude equations. Implications of the Hubble L... Read more
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11 - Special and General Relativity (cont.)
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