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Current / Most Recent Semester: |
Fall 2014/15 |
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Instructor(s): |
Michael Kwok Yee WONG |
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Teaching Pattern: |
duration of course: about 13 weeks
lecture hour(s) per week: 3
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No. of Credit(s): |
3 |
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Content: |
Introduction to black hole Physics
The concept of symmetry
Postulates of special relativity (principle of relativity, the
constancy of the speed of light)
Lorentz transformation
Paradoxes (including length contraction, time dilation and twin
paradox)
Principle of
equivalence
Gravity as spacetime curvature
Mathematics of curved spacetime
Einstein field equations
Black holes as stellar collapse
The Schwarzschild solution & journey towards Schwarzschild black
holes
Kruskal coordinates
Penrose diagram
Rotating black holes
Hawking radiation
Olberˇ¦s paradox
Hubble law
Cosmic microwave background radiation
Abundance of light elements
Cosmological principle
Friedman equation
Big bang
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Remarks: |
Exclusion: PHYS
4054
Prerequisite:
A passing grade in *AL Physics or any 000-/1000- level Physics courses
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