Teaching

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Astronomy 105G

  • Title: The Planets
  • Prerequisites: none
  • Example syllabus
  • Topics: Our solar system, ancient astronomy, Newton's Laws, Kepler's Laws, radiation, telescopes, geology, atmospheres.
  • Taught: 2008F, 2009S, 2010S, 2011S

Astronomy 110G

  • Title: Stars and Galaxies
  • Prerequisites: none
  • Example syllabus
  • Topics: Radiation, stellar evolution, our Sun, galaxy classification, dark matter, dark energy, cosmology.
  • Taught: 2012S, 2012F, 2013S, 2013F

Astronomy 301V

  • Title: Revolutionary Ideas in Science
  • Prerequisites: introductory science course
  • Example syllabus
  • Topics: Copernican revolution, cosmology, plate tectonics, global warming,
  • Taught: 2010S, 2011S, 2012S

Astronomy 565

  • Title: Stellar Structure and Evolution
  • Prerequisites: calculus
  • Topics: nuclear reactions, hydrodynamics, convection, chemical abundances, electron degeneracy
  • Taught: 2013F

Astronomy 698

  • Title: Special topics: Solar Astrophysics
  • Prerequisites: calculus
  • Topics: hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, solar oscillations, dynamo theory, radiative transfer
  • Taught: 2009F, 2011F