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Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity & Astrophysics
- Instructors
- Prof. Edmund Bertschinger, Prof. Edwin F. Taylor
- Term
- Spring 2003
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 6 videos · 1 reading · 22 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- Videos here · files on MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.224 Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity & Astrophysics, Spring 2003, Prof. Edmund Bertschinger, Prof. Edwin F. Taylor — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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13 files
- Assignment for Weeks 1 and 2 Download
- Coordinates and Proper Time (Notes to supplement Assignment for Weeks 1 and 2) Download
- Assignment for Week 3 Download
- Gravity, Metrics and Coordinates (Additional Notes for Week 3) Download
- Assignment for Week 4 Download
- Assignment for Week 5 Download
- GRorbits SOFTWARE (This is a compressed file of a software program in JAVA to be used for the homework exercises of Week 5.) Download
- How Gravitational Forces Arise from Curvature (Third and last set of supplementary notes) Download
- Assignment for Week 6 Download
- Assignment for Week 7 Download
- Assignment for Week 8 Download
- Cosmology Project for Week 8 Download
- Figures for Cosmology Project Download
Exams
Other materials from this course
7 files
- Detection of Gravitational Waves with Interferometers (ligobhseminarapr03.pdf) Download
- nontech9.pdf Download
- Questions supporting lecture titled "The Universe: Questions You Were Afraid to Ask" (questionsseminar2.pdf) Download
- 8224_Sem03GKS2.pdf Download
- 8224baganoff_v2.pdf Download
- The Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy ? Sagittarius A* (8224baganoffGKS.pdf) Download
- On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (einstein.pdf) Download
Course outline
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2: The Universe: Questions You Were Afraid to Ask
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5: Einstein's Field Equations
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8: X-Ray Binaries and the Search for Black Holes
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10: The Universe and Three Examples
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13: Cosmic Structure Formation; From Inflation to Galaxies
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MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Edmund Bertschinger, Prof. Edwin F. Taylor, 8.224 Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity & Astrophysics, Spring 2003.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2003 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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