Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe - Fall 2004

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
	Exam #2	Friday, October 8
	Exam #3	Friday, October 29
	Exam #4	Wednesday, November 17
	Final Exam	Monday, December 13

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The reading is the relevant sections from the textbook: Astronomy, Volume II, Stars & Galaxies, by John D. Fix (Third Edition).

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 - 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
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
10/8	Second hour exam

Unit #3	Observing targets for Unit #3
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
10/25	Lecture 22 - Cosmic distance scale	23.3
10/27	Review
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
11/15	Review
11/17	Fourth hour exam

Unit #5
Date	Topic	Reading
11/19	Teaching discussion
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