ASTR 160: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics (Spring 2007, Open Yale Courses) | Physics

ASTR 160 - Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics

ASTR 160: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics (Spring 2007, Open Yale Courses). Instructor: Professor Charles Bailyn. This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular attention is paid to current projects that promise to improve our understanding significantly over the next few years. The course explores not just what is known, but what is currently not known, and how astronomers are going about trying to find out. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Introduction

Lecture 01 - Introduction

Lecture 02 - Planetary Orbits

Lecture 03 - Our Solar System and the Pluto Problem

Lecture 04 - Discovering Exoplanets: Hot Jupiters

Lecture 05 - Planetary Transits

Lecture 06 - Microlensing, Astrometry and Other Methods

Lecture 07 - Direct Imaging of Exoplanets

Lecture 08 - Introduction to Black Holes

Lecture 09 - Special and General Relativity

Lecture 10 - Tests of Relativity

Lecture 11 - Special and General Relativity (cont.)

Lecture 12 - Stellar Mass Black Holes

Lecture 13 - Stellar Mass Black Holes (cont.)

Lecture 14 - Pulsars

Lecture 15 - Supermassive Black Holes

Lecture 16 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang

Lecture 17 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)

Lecture 18 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)

Lecture 19 - Omega and the End of the Universe

Lecture 20 - Dark Matter

Lecture 21 - Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe and the Big Rip

Lecture 22 - Supernovae

Lecture 23 - Other Constraints: The Cosmic Microwave Background

Lecture 24 - The Multiverse and Theories of Everything

References

ASTR 160 - Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics
Professor Charles Bailyn. Class Sessions. Downloads. Syllabus. This course focuses on three interesting areas of astronomy: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy.