INTRODUCTION TO SPECIALITY (V.S. Beskin)
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- Revolutionary development of astrophysics in the second half of the twentieth century.
Key opening (cosmic microwave background, cosmic masers, radio lines, quasars, radio galaxies as a manifestation of activity of galactic nuclei, radio pulsars, X-ray pulsars and other compact sources of X-rays, gamma-ray bursts, gravitational lenses and microlenses, the sources of gamma-ray bursts)
- Radio pulsars
The main observational properties. The pulsar in the Crab Nebula. Accidental opening. Theoretical predictions.
- Electromagnetic braking mechanism
Determination of the evolution of neutron star with magnetodipole radiation.Characteristic time of life. Derivation of formula for magnetodipole loss from qualitative consideration.
- Radio pulsars magnetosphere
Model of a unipolar inductor. Current loss of neutron stars.
- Magnetosphere of black holes
- Pulsar 1913 +16 in the binary system
The first radio pulsar in binary system. A unique gravity lab. Doppler effect and its use in astronomy (determination of orbital elements, the mass function (with derivation)).
- Post-Newtonian corrections
Deflection of light. Gravitational red shift. Motion of the perihelion (periastron). Shapiro delay.
- Gravitational radiation
Power of gravitational radiation. Absence of dipole gravitational radiation. Energy density of gravitational field. Derivation of formula for the gravitational loss.
- Measurement of lengths in astrophysics
Radiolocation. Parallax. Cepheids. Supernovae.
- Search for black holes
The black holes of solar mass. Supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei
- Plasma frequency
Permittivity of medium. Derivation of expression for plasma frequency
- The main observational ranges - line and continuous radiation
Radio astronomy. Optical astronomy. X-ray astronomy. Gamma-astronomy.
- Gamma-ray bursts
The first observations, interpretation as neutron stars. Contradiction isotropy - heterogeneity. Afterglow - cosmological nature of gamma-ray bursts. Criterion LogN - LogS.
- Introduction to the general theory of relativity
Limitation of the classical theory of gravitation. Group properties for the rotation. Invariance of equations of electrodynamics under the Lorentz transformation.
- Tensors in physics.
Metric tensor. Energy-momentum tensor.
- Curvature.
Geodesics. The triangles and circles. Gaussian curvature.
- Einstein's equations
Heuristic consideration. Gravity as curvature. The limiting process to the nonrelativistic case.
- New (old forgotten?) ideas in the mathematical physics in the last of XX century
Fractality, chaos and catastrophe.
- Topology
Orientable and nonorientable surfaces. Poincare indexes. Eulerian characteristic. Nematic crystals - an example of the topology of the projective plane. Opportunity of nontrivial topological structure of the universe.
- Fractals
Hausdorff dimension. Fractality of sunspots. Aggregations, aerogels. Diffusion in fractal space.
- Phase plane
Mappings. Feigenbaum process.
- The theory of Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM)
Arnold diffusion. Saturn rings. Astrophysical examples (asteroids, Kirkwood ports, instability of the orbits of satellites of the Earth and the Moon).
- Theory of groups
The concept of the group. Cyclic group.
- Commutative Groups
- Subgroups
Direct product of groups.
- Cosets
- Inner automorphisms
- Commutant
- Homomorphism
- Groups of permutations
Theorem of the unsolvability of the group of permutations for n> 4.
- Abel's Theorem
LITERATURE
- William J. Kaufman The Cosmic Frontiers of General Relativity
- A.M.Cherepashchuk, A.D. Chernin. The Universe, Life, and Black Holes.
- Karlov N.V., Kirichenko N.A. Oscillations, Waves, Structures.
- Alekseev V.B. Abel's theorem in problems and solutions.
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