8.224 Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity and Astrophysics (Spring 2003, MIT OCW) | Physics

8.224 Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity and Astrophysics

8.224 Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity and Astrophysics (Spring 2003, MIT OCW). Instructors: Prof. Edmund Bertschinger and Prof. Edwin Taylor. Study of physical effects in the vicinity of a black hole as a basis for understanding general relativity, astrophysics, and elements of cosmology. Extension to current developments in theory and observation. Energy and momentum in flat spacetime; the metric; curvature of spacetime near rotating and nonrotating centers of attraction; trajectories and orbits of particles and light; elementary models of the Cosmos. (from ocw.mit.edu)

Lecture 01 - Introduction

Lecture 02 - The Universe: Questions You Were Afraid to Ask

Lecture 03 - Einstein's Field Equations

Lecture 04 - X-Ray Binaries and the Search for Black Holes

Lecture 05 - The Universe and Three Examples

Lecture 06 - Cosmic Structure Formation; From Inflation to Galaxies

References

8.224 Exploring Black Holes
Instructors: Prof. Edmund Bertschinger and Prof. Edwin Taylor. Selected Lecture Notes. Exams (no Solutions). Study of physical effects in the vicinity of a black hole.