Shanshan Rodriguez

Holographic dualities are at the forefront of contemporary physics research: peering into the fundamental nature of our universe and providing best attempt answers to humankind's bold questions about basic physical phenomena. Yet, the concepts, ideas and mathematical rigors associated with these dualities have long been reserved for the specific field researchers and experts. In this book, we attempt to shatter this long held paradigm by bringing several aspects of holography research into the classroom, starting at the college-physics level and moving up from there. There are numerous examples of holographic dualities in physics, with the AdS/CFT correspondence of string theory being the most famous. Of particular interest to our work, and pedagogical implementation, are the holographic scaling properties of black holes and their gravitational fields. Exploiting these specific properties will allow us to introduce topics traditionally regarded as complicated, such as ADM mass, into the undergraduate classroom.