| Prof. Kaaret Office: 702 Van Allen Hall Phone: 335-1985 E-mail: philip-kaaret@uiowa.edu Office hours: Monday 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Wednesday 10:00 am – noon, or by appointment Syllabus |
Important dates | |
| Exam #1 |
Wednesday, February 9 |
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| Exam #2 |
Wednesday, March 2 | |
| Exam #3 |
Wednesday, March 30 | |
| Exam #4 |
Wednesday, April 20 |
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| Final Exam |
Monday, May 9, 7:30 am |
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| Unit #1 |
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| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
| 1/19 |
Lecture 1 - Introduction | |
| 1/21 |
Lecture
2 - Scientific Method, Numbers, Distances |
1.1-1.4, 1.6, 1.8 |
| 1/24 |
Lecture 3 - Night Sky and Motion of the Earth around the Sun | 1.5, 2.1-2.5 |
| 1/26 |
Lecture
4 -
Phases of the Moon, Eclipses, Distances |
1.5, 3.1-3.5 |
| 1/28 |
Lecture 5 - Orbits, Sizes, Precession | 1.5, 2.6, 4.1-4.7 |
| 1/31 |
Lecture 6 - Extrasolar Planets |
5.1-5.2, 5.9, 8.6 |
| 2/2 |
Lecture 7
- Life Beyond Earth |
30 |
| 2/4 |
Lecture 8
- The Sun - Structure and Nuclear Burning |
18.1-18.5 |
| 2/7 |
Review - Practice Exam |
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| 2/9 |
First hour exam Form A Form B |
| Unit #2 |
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| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
| 2/11 |
Lecture 9 - The Sun - Outer Layers | 18.5-18.10 |
| 2/14 |
Lecture
10
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Stars: Brightness, Temperature, Color |
19.1-19.4, 5.2-5.4 |
| 2/16 |
Lecture 11 - Stars and Atomic Spectra | 19.5, 19.7-19.9, 5.4-5.8 |
| 2/18 |
Lecture
12 - Star Formation |
20.1-20.7 |
| 2/21 |
Lecture
13 - Main Sequence Stars |
20.4, 19.6, 21.1 |
| 2/23 |
Lecture
14 - Evolution of Stars |
21.1-21.3, 22.1-22.3 |
| 2/25 |
Lecture
15 - Deaths of Stars, Supernovae |
21.3, 22.1-22.10 |
| 2/28 |
Review - Practice Exam |
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| 3/2 |
Second hour exam Form A Form B |
| Unit #3 |
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| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
| 3/4 |
Lecture
16
- The Milky Way, Shape and Size |
25.1-25.2 |
| 3/7 |
Lecture
17 - The Milky Way's Spiral Arms |
25.3, 25.5 |
| 3/9 |
Lecture
18 - Orbits and Dark Matter, the Center of the Milky Way |
25.4, 25.6 |
| 3/11 |
No class |
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| 3/21 |
Lecture
19 - Galaxies |
26.1-26.3, 26.6 |
| 3/23 |
Lecture 20 - Formation of Galaxies | 26.7-26.9 |
| 3/25 |
Lecture 21 - Cosmic Distance Scale | 26.4-26.5 |
| 3/28 |
Review - Practice Exam | |
| 3/30 |
Third hour exam Form A Form B |
| Unit #4 |
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| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
| 4/1 |
Lecture
22 - White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars |
22.4, 23.1-23.9 |
| 4/4 |
Lecture
23 - Black Holes |
24.1-24.2 |
| 4/6 |
Lecture 24
- More Black Holes (same slides as for lecture 23) |
24.5-24.7 |
| 4/8 |
Lecture 25 - Active Galaxies | 24.4, 27.1-27.5 |
| 4/11 |
Lecture 26 - Accretion Disks | 24.3 |
| 4/13 |
Lecture 27 - Black Hole Jets | 27.4-27.5 |
| 4/15 |
Lecture 28 - Intermediate Mass Black Holes | |
| 4/18 |
Review - Practice Exam |
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| 4/20 |
Fourth hour exam Form A Form B |
| Unit #5 |
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| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
| 4/22 |
Lecture
29 - Expansion of the
Universe, Curved Spacetime |
28.1-28.3, 28.6 |
| 4/25 |
Lecture
30 - Cosmology |
28.3-28.6, 29.5 |
| 4/27 |
Lecture
31 - More Cosmology |
28.6-28.8 |
| 4/29 |
Lecture
32 - Even more Cosmology |
29.1 |
| 5/2 |
Lecture 33 - Clusters and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe | 29.6 |
| 5/4 |
Review Practice Exam | |
| 5/6 |
Review |