Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lecture – 7: Einstein’s General Theory) by G Srinivasan

SUMMER COURSES

NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLES

SPEAKER: G Srinivasan (​Raman Research Institute – Retired)

DATE: 15 May 2019 to 28 June 2019

VENUE: Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Bangalore

The theme of the course will be neutron stars and black holes, with emphasis on neutron stars in binaries (their formation and rotational history); their mergers; gamma ray bursts; formation of intermediate mass and super massive black holes.

Lectures:

1) Diffuse Stars
2) Life History of the stars
3) Quantum Stars
4) Neutron Stars and Supernovae
5) Interior of neutron stars
6) Superfluidity and superconductivity inside neutron stars.
7) Neutron Stars as Pulsars
8) Gravitation – From Newton to Einstein
9) Maximum mass of neutron stars
10) Evolution of neutron stars in close binaries
11) Recycled pulsars
12) Tests General Relativity using Double Neutron Stars
13) Gravitational radiation from neutron star mergers
14) Black Holes of General Relativity
15) Super massive Black Holes
16) Universe versus Multiverse

Schedule:

May – 15, 17, 22, 24, 29 and 31
June – 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 24, 26 and 28
Time: 10:00 AM

Table of Contents (powered by https://videoken.com)
0:00:00 Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lecture – 7: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity)
0:00:08 The Physical Content of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
0:00:17 Dining Hall of Trinity College, Cambridge Christmas Recess, 1933
0:02:26 6 November, 1919
0:02:47 Deflection of light by the Sun
0:03:35 Sir J.J. Thompson President, Royal Society
0:04:23 Times 7 November 1919
0:05:09 Ticker Tape Parade for Einstein New York, April, 1921
0:09:19 Newton’s Laws of Motion
0:10:22 The Aristotelian view
0:12:19 Inertial Observers
0:13:17 Newton’s principle of Relativity
0:15:45 Einstein’s Principle of relativity
0:18:04 Results of Special Relativity
0:19:43 Hermann Minkowski
0:20:51 Space-time before Minkowski
0:22:21 Sheets of paper
0:23:00 Minkowski’s space-time
0:24:34 Minkowski’s spacetime
0:31:21 Einstein was not impressed with Minkowski’s ideas.
0:32:26 Newton’s gravity inconsistent with special relativity
0:35:03 Henri Poincare
0:35:56 Principle of relativity at odds with gravity
0:39:45 Newton’s Principle of Equivalence
0:40:51 Principle of Equivalence
0:42:27 Equality of inertial mass & gravitational mass
0:45:54 “Happiest thought of my life”
0:47:37 A freely falling frame is an inertial frame!
0:48:34 Principle of Equivalence Einstein’s ‘thought experiments’
0:51:30 Einstein’s principle of equivalence: 1907
0:58:33 Gravitational red shift
1:00:23 Deflection of light: 1911
1:03:34 Deflection of light in Newtonian gravity
1:04:46 Deflection of light: 1915
1:05:56 March 1912
1:22:55 ALL acceleration derived from gravitational and inertial forces are ‘metrical in origin’
1:24:43 Let us break up Newton’s law into two parts:
1:28:50 Einstein’s basic premise
1:31:02 1912: Einstein returns to Zurich
1:31:29 Einstein – Grossman collaboration
1:33:22 Einstein’s basic premise: (1912)
1:36:05 Einstein-Grossmann paper – 1913
1:38:41 Einstein’s Laws of gravitation
1:40:46 Newtonian Gravity
1:43:47 In regions where no matter is present
1:46:03 In regions where matter is present
1:47:59 Conservation Laws
1:50:35 Einstein’s field equations
1:52:08 Newtonian limit
1:56:55 Einstein-Hilbert field equations
1:58:36 The Schwarzschild Solution
2:03:56 On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry. Bernhard Riemann
2:08:04 Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid at night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
2:08:58 Next Lecture – Maximum mass of Neutron Stars
2:09:02 Q&A