| Black Holes 2005 | |
| Jan 24 Mon |
=15:15-17:00 room FL64
[=1st lecture=]
Infinitesimal distances on a plane and on a sphere. The meric. Coordinate transformations. Covariant and contravariant vectors and tensors. Tensor algebra. Rasing and lowering indicies. Einstein's summation convention. |
| Jan 26 Wed |
=10:00-11:45 room FL72
[=2nd lecture=]
Parallel transport. Covariant derivative. Geodesic lines. Frenet's formulae. |
| Jan 31 Mon |
=15:15-17:00 room FL64
[=3rd lecture=]
Curvature. Riemann and Ricci tensors and their geometrical meaning. Intrinsic and extrinsic curvature. Examples: sphere, cyllinder. |
| Feb 02 Wed |
=10:00-11:45 room FL72
[=4th lecture=]
Minkowski spacetime. Spacelike, timelike and null curves. Observers. Measurements. Lorentz transformations. Uniformly accelerated observer. |
| Feb 07 Mon |
=15:15-17:00 room FL64
[=5th lecture=]
General spacetime. Geodesic deviation. Einstein's principle of equivalence. Gravitational field. |
| Feb 09 Wed |
NO LECTURE TODAY
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| Feb 14 Mon |
=15:15-17:00 room FL64
[=6th lecture=]
Matter. Stress-energy tensor. Killing vectors. Conservation laws. |
| Feb 16 Wed |
=10:00-11:45 room FL72
[=7th lecture=]
Einstein's field equations. Schwarzschild equations. The Schwarzschild metric. Circular motion of particles and photons in the Schwarzschild metric. |
| Feb 21 Mon |
=15:15-17:00 room FL64
[=8th lecture=]
The effective potential. Epicyclic frequencies. Peryhelion of Mercury advance. |
| Feb 23 Wed |
=10:00-11:45 room FL72
[=9th lecture=]
Non-static spacetimes. The Kerr metric. Ergosphere. Dragging of inertial frames. The Penrose process. |
| Feb 28 Mon |
NO LECTURE TODAY
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| Mar 02 Wed |
=10:00-11:45 room FL72
[=10th lecture=]
Conformal transformations. Optical geometry. Centrifugal force paradox. |
| Feb 07 Mon |
=15:15-17:00 room FL64
[=11th lecture=]
Kruskalization. The horizon. The singularity. Cosmic censorship. The area of horizon theorem. Quantum effects. Hawking radiation. |
| Mar 09 Wed |
=10:00-11:45 room FL72
[=12th lecture=]
Astrophysical black holes. Other compact objects: neutron stars and white dwarfs. Stellar mass black holes. Supermassive black holes. Primodial black holes. Black hole in our Galaxy centre. |