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Course Schedule |
The class will follow this tentative schedule. Updates will be posted here and on the course Slack channel! In the following TB refers to Thorne & Blandford, Modern Classical Physics, and BS refers to Baumgarte & Shapiro, Numerical Relativity. For course lecture videos and lecture notes, see Lectures.
| Date | Topic | Reading | Homework | Notes |
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| 1/8 | Geometric physics | TB 1 | Homework 1 | |
| 1/10 | Geometric physics | TB 1 | ||
| 1/15 | Special relativity | TB 2 | Homework 2 | |
| 1/17 | Special relativity | TB 2 | ||
| 1/22 | Special to General | TB 24 | Homework 3 | |
| 1/24 | Special to General | TB 24 | ||
| 1/29 | Fundamentals of GR | TB 25 | Homework 4 | |
| 1/31 | Cancelled due to Coldmaggedon | |||
| 2/5 | Fundamentals of GR | TB 25 | ||
| 2/7 | No class | |||
| 2/12 | TOV equation, OS collapse | BS 1 | Midterm | |
| 2/14 | 3+1 decomposition | BS 2.1 - 2.3 | ||
| 2/19 | 3+1 decomposition | BS 2.4 - 2.6 | Homework 5 | HW 1-4 due |
| 2/21 | 3+1/ADM | BS 2.7 | ||
| 2/26 | No class | |||
| 2/28 | Initial data | BS 3 | ||
| 3/5 | Spring Break | |||
| 3/7 | Spring Break | |||
| 3/12 | Lapse & Shift | BS 4 | Homework 6 | Midterm due |
| 3/14 | Matter sources | BS 5 | ||
| 3/19 | Matter sources | BS 5 | ||
| 3/21 | GR Radiation Transport | BS 5 | ||
| 3/26 | GR MHD | BS 5 | ||
| 3/28 | Cancelled due to plague | |||
| 4/2 | Work on Final Project | |||
| 4/4 | BH horizons | BS 7 | ||
| 4/9 | Spherical spacetimes | BS 8 | ||
| 4/11 | Gravitational waves | BS 9 | ||
| 4/16 | Evolution equations | BS 11 | HW 5 & 6 due | |
| 4/18 | Binary NS initial data | BS 15 | ||
| 4/23 | Binary NS evolution | BS 16 | ||
| 4/25 | Binary NS evolution | BS 16 | ||
| 5/1 | Final project presentations | 10 am - 12 pm |