Astronomy 162, Winter 1997, Professor Weinberg's Section
From this page, you can get lecture notes and other information
for Professor Weinberg's Winter, 1997 section of Astronomy 162.
Many of the items listed below are available in both postscript format
and html format. If you don't know what this means, see the
note on formats.
These are a useful starting point for the
essay assignment.
Items handed out in class
As of February 28, the following items have been handed out.
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Course syllabus [
postcript,
html].
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Notes for the first week of lectures (also available below).
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A handout on "Important Equations" [
postcript only].
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Notes on using the World Wide Web.
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Sample quiz questions [html].
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Sample HR diagrams.
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Problem set 1.
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The essay assignment [
postcript,
html], which is due Monday, March 3.
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Problem set 2.
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Makeup problem set.
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Copies of two diagrams that appear in the COP-EZ notes but not in
the WWW notes; useful for those of you getting the notes
from the web.
Miscellaneous information
For information about the astronomy department's "Roof Nights"
(planetarium and telescope shows) click
here.
For a brief description of some popular books on relativity and
cosmology click here.
- Lecture 1: Introduction to Course [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 2: Distances and Luminosities of Stars [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 3: Colors, Spectra, and Surface Temperatures of Stars [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 4: Binary Stars: Stellar Masses and Radii [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 5: The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 6: Principles of Stellar Structure. I. Why Don't Stars Collapse? [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 7: Principles of Stellar Structure.
II. Leaking Photons and Stellar Luminosities [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 8: Principles of Stellar Structure.
III. Nuclear Energy [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 9: Do We Understand the Sun? [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 10: Stellar Evolution. I. The Main Sequence [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 11: Stellar Evolution. II. Red Giants [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 12: Stellar Evolution. III. White Dwarfs [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 13: Stellar Astronomy: Observation and Theory [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 14: Supernovae [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 15: Neutron Stars and Black Holes [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 16: Andromeda and The Milky Way. I. What are galaxies? [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 17: Andromeda and The Milky Way. II. Stellar Populations [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 18: Spiral Galaxies and Dark Coronas [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 19: Galaxies and Galaxy Groups [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 20: Quasars [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 21: Relativity and Spacetime [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 22: General Relativity [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 23: Expansion of the Universe [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 24: The Big Bang Theory [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 25: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Cosmic Microwave Background [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 26: Dark Matter [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 27: A Tale of Three Telescopes, Part I [
postscript,
html]
- Lecture 28: A Tale of Three Telescopes, Part II [
postscript,
html]
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Updated: 1997 March 2 [dhw]