Final Exam
3 PM Monday,
Dec. 14, in BPS 1420
General Info
(baldwin@pa.msu.edu), Room 3270 BPS, (517) 884-5611
Office Hours: Regular office hours are Mo 11-12, Th 1-2. Or catch me in my office whenever you can… I’m usually there from 9AM – 5 PM, except Wed 11:30-3:00.
Textbook: Carroll & Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd edition..
Current
version of syllabus (pdf)
Some Websites to bookmark:
ADS abstract service form: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
ADS journal/volume/page query: http://adsabs.harvard.edu//bib_abs.html
To access many of the recent articles, you need to be using the internet from campus).
ArXiv astro-ph eprint archive: http://xxx.lanl.gov/form/astro-ph?MULTI=form+interface
SIMBAD database: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad
NED database: http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html
HST Digitized Sky Survey: http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form
Ned Wright’s Javascript Cosmology Calculator: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html
Plus a few observing tools
Cloud cover forecasts: http://cleardarksky.com/
Airmass calculator: http://imagiware.com/astro/airmass.cgi
Precession calculator: http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/support/tools/precess.html
Sunrise/set, moonrise/set: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html
Sidereal time clock: http://www.jgiesen.de/astro/astroJS/siderealClock/
Python
Study Guides
Final Exam
3 PM Monday,
Dec. 14, in BPS 1420
Homework
Assignments
Homework 4, Due Oct. 26
Homework 6, due Monday Nov 2
Lecture Notes, etc.
The Psychedelic Barred Spiral Movie
Sept
18 (Dr. Smith’s lecture)
(Midterm 1)
Oct. 7 (includes important revision to top slide on pg. 3, made at 11:20 AM on Oct 7)
Oct. 9 Revised on Sunday Oct 11:
Slide 2, left column, 2nd equation from bottom changed to better show why Total Energy needs m(curly-pi)2 term.
Slides 5,6: In box defining 1/tH2, changed rc,0(t) to say rc,0.
Oct 14 (updated after class on 10/14 to fix wrong definition of Omega_rel on slide 5)
Oct 19 (updated 10/19 at 1:50PM, with improvements to notation)
Oct 21 (updated 10/23 to give correct definition of K on last slide)
Oct 23 (updated 10AM on 10/23 to give correct definition of K on first slide)
(Midterm 2)
Nov 16 (11AM Nov 16 version)
Nov 18 (12:40 Nov 18 version)
Nov 20 (updated with minor cosmetic changes 11:20 Nov 20)
Dec 9 (updated 12:30PM Dec 9)
Dec 11 (updated 1:50PM Dec 11)
Final Exam
3 PM Monday,
Dec. 14, in BPS 1420
