SYLLABI & SCHEDULES Physics of Astronomy - updated 30.March.2004

Here is an overview of our plans each quarter. Syllabi may shift in response to student needs. Check the weekly Lecture Notes for homework assignments. Check the HW + Help link for details and updates on specific assignments. Seminar Syllabus. Astronomy & Cosmology

Relationships between spring quarter's linked programs: Advanced students will continue in Physics of Astronomy (PA) in spring for 16 credits. This includes Science Seminar and your help in some Astronomy classes. You are not required to attend the green times.
New students will participate in the spring Astronomy & Cosmology (AC) program for 16 credits. This includes Seminar and Celestial Navigation. You do not attend the yellow times.
All students in PA and AC will participate in Science Seminar, which is also open to other students for 4 or 8 credits. Science Seminar students only need attend the orange times.
OPTIONAL: Students from the 16-credit spring program, Working the Waters, are invited to join us for Celestial Navigation workshops (a regular part of Astronomy) every Tuesday night for an extra 2 cr. Astronomy students are invited to join Working the Waters for Piloting workshops every Thursday morning for an extra 2 cr.

Read: Most scientists skim on the first reading of very new material, with unfamiliar language and concepts. Get the big picture when you skim, look at the pictures (read figure captions), and be alert for connections to other things you are studying. Then do a thorough second reading before class. Work through key derivations on the third reading, which can be after class unless you are doing a minilecture on the material.

HW is homework, which will be due different days of the week, depending on our material. HW assignments and hints will be posted on WebX.

Minilectures are short presentations or workshops given by students to the class, individually or in teams. We will use a variation of Jigsaw Learning and Learning Through Discussion techniques. Your prof will guide team choices of materials. When it is your team's turn, please prepare a legible one-page handout for all class members, and either an electronic presentation or overhead transparencies of your notes. Secretaries Ruth and Pat (Lab II Rm 2250) can help you make copies and transparencies, with 2 hours advance notice. (Remember to thank them.) On Thursdays in Lib 2126, you can use the display projector without transparencies.

P+Q are Points and Questions, which you will post to WebX. You will have P+Q assignments for both the Science and the Seminar part of this program.

Teams are small groups of classmates. Three or four is a good size.

Prepare for your team meeting: Finish the reading assignment, taking notes in your notebook and/or text margins. Investigate other texts or online resources if you have time and motivation. Note connections with other program material. Summarize key points of your reading, in writing. Articulate questions large and small, from simple questions of fact, to deeper questions of meaning and connections. Write them down, complete with references to pages, equations, or figures, so you and your team can take a deeper look at them. Do as much of your homework as you can on your own. Complete any other pre-team assignments.

Do with your team: Discuss the reading. If you loved it or hated it, vent now, so you can concentrate on the actual content in class. What's interesting? How does it relate to other material? Discuss your summaries, and choose 3 key points about the reading to share in class. Reference relevant pages, equations, or figures, always. Discuss your questions. Answer each other's simple questions, e.g. about notation or definitions. Choose 3 key questions that you agree you would like addressed in class. Post your group's 3 key points and questions on WebX. Work on homework and any other assignments together.

Physics of Astronomy OVERVIEW (both quarters:  approximately two weeks per Astrophysics chapter) ASTROPHYSICS Carroll & Ostlie (CO) (chapters to be covered thoroughly) ASTRONOMY  Freedman & Kaufmann (supporting chapters) PHYSICS Giancoli,  Griffiths (EM) (supporting chapters - some optional) MATHEMATICS Boas, Spiegel (some key techniques required by CO) 1. The Celestial Sphere  Ch.1-2    sphericla trigonometry 2. Celestial Mechanics  Ch.3-4  Classical Mechanics  differential equations, cross products 3. The continuous spectrum of Light  Ch.5 EM, Giancoli 35-36 exponential, logarithms 5. The Interaction  of Light + Matter  Ch.6 EM, Giancoli 33-34, 38-40  partial derivatives 9. Stellar Atmospheres  Ch.18-21 Giancoli 17-20, 38 solid angles, 3D integrals, dot products 10. Stellar Interiors  Ch.22-24  Giancoli 7, 8, 12, 13, 42-44:  Equilibrium, fluids, energy, nuclear  differential equations 11. The Sun  Ch.18  EM, Giancoli 27-30, 32 vector calculus 25.  Structure of the Universe  Ch.25-27  Giancoli Ch.45   27. Cosmology  Ch.28-29  Giancoli Ch.45  differential equations

Homework is required for Astrophysics, and recommended for Universe and Giancoli.

SPRING	ASTROPHYSICS Carroll & Ostlie (CO)	ASTRONOMY  Freedman & Kaufmann	PHYSICS Giancoli	MATHEMATICS Boas
week 1	review winter material, preview spring	19: The Nature of Stars (36, 63) 20:  The Birth of Stars (25, 30, 44)	17: Thermal (63 & repeat for Sun)	review differentiation
week2	CO.9: Stellar Atmospheres (#1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11 due Tuesday)	21:  Stellar Evolution (28, 29, 32, 45) 22:  Deaths of stars (25, 26, 28, 33, 41, 44)	19: Heat (86, 87)	review integration
week3	Read CO.10 except skim 324-5, 340-1, 10.5; skip 10.4	18: Sun (HSE, fusion) (#24-27, 29-34)	13. Fluids; 16. Sound (#1-5); 42, 43: Nuclear	5. Multiple integrals
week 4	CO.10: Stellar Interiors (1, 3-8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16)	23, 24:  Neutron Stars, Black Holes	7: Energy 8: Escape velocity Fermi-Bose statistics p.1046	8.1-2 differential equations
week 5	CO.11: The Sun	18:  The Sun	12: Equilibrium 13: Fluids	8.3 differential equations
week 6	CO.11: The Sun	25: Our Galaxy;  26: Galaxies	42-43: Nuclear	8.4 differential equations
week 7	BREAK			8.5 differential equations
week 8	CO.25:  Structure of the Universe	28:  Cosmology:  The creation and fate of the Universe	45:  Astrophysics & Cosmology	(8.5 differential equations)
week 9	CO.27: Cosmology	29: Exploring our Early Universe		8.6 differential equations
week 10	CO.27: Grand Finale
eval week	7-10 June  (Graduation 11 June)