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 | 1 |  |  |  | Introduction to the Class |  |  |  | Edmund Bertschinger |  | 
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 | 2 |  |  |  | The Universe: Questions You were Afraid to Ask |  |  |  | Edwin Taylor and Kristin Burgess |  | 
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 | 3 |  |  |  | No Evening Seminar this Week, Just Recitation Section |  |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 4 |  |  |  | Global Positioning System |  |  |  | Thomas Herring |  | 
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 | 5 |  |  |  | Einstein's Field Equations |  |  |  | Edmund Bertschinger |  | 
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 | 6 |  |  |  | Tracing Einstein's Development of the Special Relativity Theory |  |  |  | Gerald Holton |  | 
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 | 7 |  |  |  | Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy --Sagittarius A* |  |  |  | Frederick K. Baganoff |  | 
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 | 8 |  |  |  | X-Ray Binaries and the Search for Black Holes |  |  |  | Jeffrey McClintock |  | 
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 | 9 |  |  |  | Review Prepare for mid-term exam. The test covers: EBH, Thorne, Handouts, Homework, Weekly Seminars |  |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 10 |  |  |  | The Universe and Three Examples |  |  |  | Alan Guth |  | 
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 | 11 |  |  |  | No Evening Seminar this Week, Just Recitation Section |  |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 12 |  |  |  | LIGO: Detecting Gravitational Waves |  |  |  | Nergis Mavalvala |  | 
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 | 13 |  |  |  | Cosmic Structure Formation; From Inflation to Galaxies |  |  |  | Edmund Bertschinger |  | 
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 | 14 |  |  |  | Project Reports in Seminar; Project Reports in Recitation Section |  |  |  |  |  | 
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