For nuts and bolts details of the course, see
Syllabus: Short Version.
There might be some changes since the course still in early development.
The plan for the course is to cover a very easy intro
cosmology book
Liddle (2015)
with some extensions.
This allows us to build up from the bottom.
You don't need to buy
Liddle
since you can read it online:
Lied online.
But we will also have journal club reports which makes us surf current reseach in
cosmology.
This allows us to build down from the top.
We will never meet in the middle.
The alternative is to grind through a solid textbook, but for non-specialists that would
probably be unmemorable---and difficult for a non-specialist instructor.
The daily plan is that yours truly will lecture
following
Liddle's chapters with extensions for 40 minutes or so.
Then we will have 10 or minute break.
Then we resume with the journal club reports for 25 or so minutes:
Yours truly does NOT use a fixed scale for letter grades.
I just draw my own lines where I see fit at the end of the semester.
Until the end of the semester, I just use a curve which fixes the
GPA at about 3.
I don't use WebCampus. I just post grades under anonymous aliases.
You can choose your own alias. It has to be absolutely NOT identifiable
as anyone.
Very reassuring I think.
This file was updated (but probably not for the last time) 2016sep20 Tuesday
Sections and Links
Education Notes
This is the course website / extended syllabus
for a course in cosmology.
See temporary homework/solution file
tmp.pdf.
Required reading:
Lied online /
Ebook /
Liddle, Ch. 1,
IAL 4: History of Astronomy to Newton (OK for what it is),
IAL 26: The Discovery of Galaxies (OK for what it is),
IAL 28: Galaxies (low-call and a bit dated),
IAL 29: The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
(low-call and a bit dated),
IAL 30: Cosmology.
Yours truly is vastly extending on
Liddle, Ch. 1.
I leave this all as reading.
It is all easy, mostly qualitative stuff.
But it is still good to know it and it's traditional to start
cosmology in
the manner of Carl Sagan (1934--1996).
Required reading:
Lied online /
Ebook /
Liddle, Ch. 2,
Liddle, Ch. 2
Required reading:
Lied online /
Ebook /
Liddle, Ch. 3.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 4.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 5.
Exam 1 solutions: Some questions have been corrected/improved
since the test.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 6.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 7.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 8.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 9.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 10.
Final solutions: Some questions have been corrected/improved
since the final.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 11 /
Liddle, Ch. 11: Direct link.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 12 /
Liddle, Ch. 12: Direct link.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 13 /
Liddle, Ch. 13: Direct link.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 14 /
Liddle, Ch. 14: Direct link.
Required reading:
Liddle, Ch. 15 /
Liddle, Ch. 15: Direct link.
Required reading:
Liddle, AT 1-5: Also for completeness:
Notes 17: New,Old.
Required reading:
Liddle, AT 6 /
Liddle, AT 6: Direct link.
Exam 1 solutions: Some questions have been corrected/improved
since the test.
The online official course description for
Ast729: Galaxies:
Credits 3: Observation and theoretical basis for our current understanding
of galactic astronomy.
Major topics include Morphology of Galaxies,
the Milky Way, equilibria of collisionless systems,
spiral structure , and dark matter.
The evaluation summary is in the table below.
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Table: Evaluations Items
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Item Percentage Drops Comment
of grade
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Readings 0 % For study
Homeworks 0 % The study guide
journal club reports 20 % 2 drops 1 mark point each
2 in-class tests 40 % no drops
comprehensive final 40 % no drops
extra credit 0 % There is NO extra credit
__________________________________________________________________________
Tentative test schedule: Test 1: Oct09, Test 2 Nov13,
Final: See date and time specified at the
academic calendars site.
Explication of evaluation items:
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