Prof. Kaaret Office: 702 Van Allen Hall Phone: 335-1985 E-mail: philip-kaaret@uiowa.edu Office hours: Monday 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm, Wednesday 10:00 am – noon, or by appointment Syllabus |
Important dates | |
Exam #1 |
Friday, September 17 |
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Exam #2 |
Friday, October 8 |
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Exam #3 |
Friday, October 29 |
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Exam #4 |
Wednesday, November 17 |
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Final Exam |
Monday, December 13 |
Unit #1 |
Observing targets for Unit #1 | |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
8/23 |
Lecture 1 - Introduction | |
8/25 |
Lecture 2 - Powers of 10 and Scientific Method | |
8/27 |
Lecture 3 - Night Sky and Motion of the Earth around the Sun | 1.1-1.7, 2.1-2.3 |
8/30 |
Lecture 4 - Extra-Solar Planets | 6.1-6.2, 27.4, 5.3 |
9/1 |
Lecture 5 - Extra-Solar Planets continued | 27.1-27.5 |
9/3 |
Lecture 6
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Stars and Distances |
6.1-6.2, 16.1-16.4 |
9/8 |
Lecture 7 - Stars and
Temperature and Color |
6.2, 16.5-16.6 |
9/10 |
Lecture 8 - Stars and Atomic
Spectra |
16.5, 16.7 |
9/13 |
Lecture
9 - Phases of the Moon,
Precession |
2.3-2.4, 3.1-3.5 |
9/15 |
Review |
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9/17 |
First hour exam |
Unit #2 |
Observing targets for Unit #2 | |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
9/20 |
Lecture 10
- The Sun - Structure and Nuclear Burning |
17.1-17.2 |
9/22 |
Lecture
11 - The Sun - Outer
Layers |
17.3-17.5 |
9/24 |
Lecture
12 - Star Formation |
18.1-18.3 |
9/27 |
Lecture
13 - Main Sequence Stars |
19.1-19.3, 16.6-16.7 |
9/29 |
Lecture
14 - Evolution of Stars |
18.4, 19.4, 19.1 |
10/1 |
Lecture
15 - More Evolution of Stars |
19.1, 19.4 |
10/4 |
Lecture
16 - Yet More Evolution of Stars |
19.4, 20.2 |
10/6 |
Review |
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10/8 |
Second hour exam |
Unit #3 |
Observing targets for Unit #3 |
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Date |
Topic |
Reading |
10/11 |
Lecture
17
- The Milky Way, Shape and Size |
22.1-22.2, 19.4 |
10/13 |
Lecture
18 - The Milky Way, Spiral Arms |
22.1, 22.4 |
10/15 |
Lecture
19 - Orbits and Dark Matter, the Center of the Milky Way |
22.3, 22.5 |
10/18 |
Lecture
20 - Galaxies |
23.1-23.2 |
10/20 |
Lecture
21 - Formation of Galaxies |
23.2 |
10/22 |
Teaching evaluation |
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10/25 |
Lecture 22 - Cosmic distance scale | 23.3 |
10/27 |
Review |
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10/29 |
Third hour exam |
Unit #4 |
Observing targets for Unit #4 | |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
11/1 |
Lecture
23 - White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars |
20.1-20.2, 19.1, 21.3 |
11/3 |
Lecture
24 - Black Holes |
20.3, 21.3 |
11/5 |
Lecture 25
- Active Galaxies |
24.1-24.2 |
11/8 |
Lecture
26 - Accretion Disks |
24.3 |
11/10 |
Lecture
27 - Black Hole Jets |
24.3 |
11/12 |
Lecture
28 - Intermediate Mass
Black Holes |
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11/15 |
Review |
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11/17 |
Fourth hour exam |
Unit #5 |
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Date |
Topic |
Reading |
11/19 |
Teaching discussion |
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11/29 |
Lecture
29 - Expansion of the
Universe, Curved Spacetime |
26.1-26.2 |
12/1 |
Lecture
30 - Cosmology |
26.2-26.3 |
12/3 |
Lecture
31 - More Cosmology |
26.4-26.5 |
12/6 |
Lecture
32 - Even more Cosmology |
26.1-26.5 |
12/8 |
Lecture 33 - Clusters and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe | 25 |
12/10 |
Review |