Lecture Notes and References

The lecture notes are available as rel.ps.gz (restricted -- the notes need to be polished somewhat before they are released for general access).  In addition, the formal course requirements lists selected sections from "Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm" by Thorne, Price and MacDonald.  A number of other books, journal papers, and software manuals were used (see the BibTeX file).

Exercises

The exercises that accompanied this course were intended to provide hands-on demonstrations of topics covered in the lectures, and to prepare the participants for the examination projects.  The material available through the links below is not sufficient to run the exercises; regard it as illustratory only.

1. 1D HD Shocks (2 February)
2. 1D MHD Shocks (9 February)
3. Schwarzschild Black Hole (16 February)
4. Kerr Black Hole 1 (23 February + 1 March)
5. Kerr Black Hole 2 (8 March)
6. NCSA and Maxwell (15 March)
7. Visualization Examples (22 March)
8. Geodesics (29 March)
9. Storyboards (12 April)
10. 3-D WEB Visualization (19 April)
11. Blandford & Znajek (26 April)
12. 3D Field line tracing (10 May)
13. MPEG (24 May)

Last updated 04-aug-96 / aake@astro.ku.dk.