Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn at Yale University (Spring 2007)

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Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)

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. 

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

1. Introduction 46:40  

2. Planetary Orbits 51:23  

3. Our Solar System and the Pluto Problem 45:55

4. Discovering Exoplanets: Hot Jupiters 46:41

5. Planetary Transits 49:22  

6. Microlensing, Astrometry and Other Methods 47:28

7. Direct Imaging of Exoplanets 47:05

8. Introduction to Black Holes 44:04

9. Special and General Relativity 48:00

10. Tests of Relativity 44:51

11. Special and General Relativity (cont.) 40:59

12. Stellar Mass Black Holes 49:42

13. Stellar Mass Black Holes (cont.) 49:02

14. Pulsars 48:40

15. Supermassive Black Holes 47:38

16. Hubble's Law and the Big Bang 50:49

17. Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.) 51:51

18. Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.) 50:13

19. Omega and the End of the Universe 49:10

20. Dark Matter 49:37

21. Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe and the Big Rip 45:48

22. Supernovae 46:54

23. Other Constraints: The Cosmic Microwave Background 47:08

24. The Multiverse and Theories of Everything 46:46