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Actual Calendar
for AS312 (Departs from original calendar in some places)
Date of last update: February
4, 2003
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Activity |
Topics |
Reading |
Homework |
| Tuesday, Jan 14 |
Lecture #1 |
Light: Electromagnetic Radiation, Doppler
Effect |
Chapter 8: pp 152 - 155 |
HW #1 Assigned |
| Thursday, Jan 16 |
Lecture #2 |
Light: Interaction of light with matter,
Reflection and Refraction, Interference, Diffraction, Doppler
Effect, Flux and Intensity |
Chapter 8: pp 155 - 158 |
HW#2 Assigned |
| Friday, Jan 17 |
HW#1
due |
Homework #1 is due by 3 pm in Professor
Clemens' mailbox in room CAS 514 (the Astronomy Department Main
Office) |
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HW#1
due |
| Tuesday, Jan 21 |
Lecture #3 |
Light: Atomic Structure, Bohr Model of
the Atom |
Chapter 8 |
HW#3 Assigned |
| Thursday, Jan 23 |
Lecture #4 |
Light: Energy Level Diagrams, Atomic Spectral
Lines |
Chapter 8 |
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| Friday, Jan 24 |
HW#2 due |
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HW#2 due |
| Tuesday, Jan 28 |
Lecture #5 |
Light: Molecular Spectral Lines, Boltzmann
Equation |
Chapter 8 |
HW#4 Assigned |
| Thursday, Jan 30 |
Lecture #6 |
Light: Saha Equation, Spectral
Line Broadening, Blackbody Radiation, Wein's Law, Stefan-Boltzmann
Law |
Chapter 8
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| Friday, Jan 31 |
HW#3 due |
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HW#3 due |
| Tuesday, Feb 4 |
Lecture #7 |
Light: Radiative Transfer; Telescopes:
Optical telescopes, light gathering power, angular resolution,
non-optical telescopes, interferometers |
Chapter 8
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HW#5 Assigned |
| Thursday, Feb 6 |
Lecture #8 |
Telescopes: detectors, photomultipliers,
optical CCDs, infrared FPAs; The Sun: Solar structure,
interior, atmosphere, temperatures, opacities, photosphere |
Chapters 9, 10
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| Friday, Feb 7 |
HW#4 due |
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HW#4 due |
| Tuesday, Feb 11 |
Lecture #9 |
The Sun: Chromosphere, corona, absorption
and emission lines, solar wind, solar cycle, sunspots, flares |
Chapter 10
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HW#6 Assigned |
| Thursday, Feb 13 |
Exam #1 |
Midterm Exam #1: Covers everything up through
Lecture #9 and HW#1-HW#5. (Hint: Come talk to me before
the time of the exam about your answers to HW#5 so you can get
some feedback in time for the exam.) |
Chapters 8, 9, 10 |
Closed book, closed notes. |
| Friday, Feb 14 |
HW#5 due |
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HW#5 due |
| Tuesday, Feb 18 |
No Class |
= Monday Schedule at BU |
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| Thursday, Feb 20 |
Lecture #10 |
Stars: Stellar distances and magnitudes,
parallax, stellar colors, inverse square law, distance modulus,
Photometric systems, color indices, reddening, bolometric
magnitude |
Chapter 11 |
HW#7 Assigned |
| Friday, Feb 21 |
HW#6 due |
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HW#6 due |
| Tuesday, Feb 25 |
Lecture #11 |
Stars: Binary stars, classification of
binary systems, visual binaries, orbits, Kepler's third law,
mass-luminosity relation, binary velocity curves, eclipsing
binaries, event timings, close binaries. |
Chapter 12 |
HW#8 Assigned |
| Thursday, Feb 27 |
Lecture #12 |
Stars: Introduction to HR diagram, physical
characteristics of stellar atmospheres, thermodynamic equilibrium,
hydrostatic equilibrium, optical depth, spectral line formation,
HR diagram from observations, main sequence, dwarfs, giants,
stellar clusters, open and globular clusters, metallicity, luminosity
classification, spectral classification |
Chapter 13 |
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| Friday, Feb 28 |
HW#7 due |
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HW#7 due |
| Tuesday, Mar 4 |
Lecture #13 |
Milky Way Galaxy: Introduction, history,
coordinates, size and shape of the galaxy, star counts, interstellar
absorption, luminosity function, star clusters and galactic
structure |
Chapter 14 |
HW#9 Assigned |
| Thursday, Mar 6 |
Lecture #14 |
Milky Way Galaxy: Stellar populations,
galactic history, stellar orbits in the galaxy, orbit of the
sun in the galaxy, spiral arms, density waves, model of the
galaxy, dynamics of the galaxy |
Chapter 14 |
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| Friday, Mar 7 |
HW#8 due |
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HW#8 due |
| 3/10 - 3/14 |
No Class |
Monday - Friday: Spring Break at Boston University |
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| Tuesday, Mar 18 |
Lecture #15 |
Interstellar Medium: Interstellar dust,
extinction and reddening, polarization of starlight, reflection
nebulae, thermal emission from dust grains, grain compositions,
extinction curve |
Chapter 15 |
HW#10 Assigned |
| Thursday, Mar 20 |
Lecture #16 |
Interstellar Medium: Interstellar gas,
HII regions, continuum radio emission, supernovae remnants,
planetary nebulae, neutral hydrogen spectral line, molecular
spectral lines, formation of interstellar molecules, molecular
clouds, model interstellar medium, star formation |
Chapter 15 |
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| Friday, Mar 21 |
HW#9 due |
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HW#9 due |
| Tuesday, Mar 25 |
Lecture #17 |
Stars: Introduction to stellar structure
and evolution, hydrostatic equilibrium, central pressure in
the sun, equations of state, central temperature in the sun,
energy transport in stars, equation of radiative transport,
solar luminosity calculation |
Chapter 16 |
HW#11 Assigned |
| Thursday, Mar 27 |
Lecture #18 |
Stars: Energy production in stars, gravitational
contraction, thermonuclear fusion, P-P chain, CNO cycle, triple-alpha
process, neutrinos, theoretical stellar modeling, boundary conditions
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Chapter 16 |
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| Friday, Mar 28 |
HW#10 due |
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HW#10 due |
| Tuesday, Apr 1 |
Exam #2 |
Midterm Exam #2: Covers everything from
Lecture #9 through Lecture #18, HW#5 - HW#10, Chapters 13 -
17 (first part) |
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Closed books, closed notes |
| Thursday, Apr 3 |
Lecture #19 |
Stars: Protostellar collapse, evolutionary
tracks in HR diagram, stellar evolution off the main sequence,
main sequence lifetime, red giants, cluster HR diagrams, Post-main
sequence stars, Fermi statistics, white dwarfs, gravitational
redshift, magnetic white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, missing mass |
Chapters 16, 17 |
HW#12 Assigned |
| Friday, Apr 4 |
HW#11 due |
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HW#11 due |
| Tuesday, Apr 8 |
Lecture #20 |
Stars: Neutron stars, pulars, magnetic
field of the galaxy, lighthouse model, supernovae, crab nebula,
millisecond pulsars, black holes, black hole physics, Variable
stars, naming convention, pulsating stars, period-luminosity
relations, T Tauri stars, extended atmospheres, shell stars |
Chapters 17, 18 |
HW#13 Assigned |
| Thursday, Apr 10 |
Lecture #21 |
Stars: Planetary nebulae, cataclysmic variables,
novae |
Chapter 18 |
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| Friday, Apr 11 |
HW#12 due |
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HW#12 due |
| Tuesday, Apr 15 |
Lecture #22 |
Stars: Supernovae, nucleosynthesis, R-
and S- processes, X-ray sources, gamma ray bursters |
Chapter 18 |
HW#14Assigned |
| Thursday, Apr 17 |
Lecture #23 |
Milky Way Galaxy: Stellar motions, radial
velocity, proper motion, tangential velocity, space motion,
local standard of rest, solar apex, moving clusters. |
Chapter 19 |
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| Friday, Apr 18 |
HW#13 due |
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HW#13 due |
| Tuesday, Apr 22 |
Lecture #24 |
Milky Way Galaxy: Galactic rotation, Keplerian
rotation, Oort formulae, differential rotation, LSR constants,
disk rotation curve, tangent point method |
Chapter 19 |
HW#15 Asigned |
| Thursday, Apr 24 |
Lecture #25 |
Milky Way Galaxy: Evolution and structure
of the galaxy, distrubution of stars, distrubution of gas and
dust. |
Chapter 20 |
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| Friday, Apr 25 |
HW#14 due |
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HW#14 due |
| Tuesday, Apr 29 |
Lecture #26 |
Milky Way Galaxy: Galactic Center, Spiral
Arms, Bulge, Bar, cosmic rays, |
Chapter 20 |
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| Thursday, May 1 |
Lecture #27 |
Special Topics: Recent Milky Way discoveries,
lowest mass stars, emerging fields. |
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| Friday, May 2 |
HW#15 due |
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HW#15 due |
| Friday, May 9 |
Final Exam |
Final Exam: 9:00 am - 11:00 am in room
CAS B4 |
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Final Exam |
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