Astronomy 2, Winter 2017
Office: ISB 261
email: crockosi .at. ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30 - 3:00 pm or any time by appointment
(the appointment is to make sure I'm in my office to meet
you and not in the lab)
Office: Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (ISB) 159
email: wlau10@ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Fridays, 4-5 pm
email: plkarpov@ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 3-4 pm ISB 165
Lecture Times: TTh 5:20 - 6:55 pm
Lecture Room: Oakes Academic Building Room 105
Discussion Sections: Required!
01A Monday 1:20 - 2:25 pm Natural Sciences Annex 101 TA:
Marie Lau
01B Wedneday 8:00 - 9:05 am Natural Sciences Annex 101 TA:
Marie Lau
01C Wednesday 9:20 - 10:25 am Natural Sciences Annex 101
TA: Platon Karpov
01D Friday 2:40 - 3:45 pm Natural Sciences Annex 101 TA:
Platon Karpov
Note you can register for Connect with "courtesy access" at the same web link given above free for two weeks and only two weeks. I don't control the Courtesy Access period, the publisher does. I can't extend it. And this Courtesy Access is good thing, as it lets you keep up with the work if you are shopping the course or haven't sorted out whether you want to purchase the textbook bundle from the publisher or buy the electronic-only access. Your work is saved during the courtesy access period and you can carry it over in your account when you purchase Connect for the rest of the quarter. You must purchase Connect access before your Courtesy Access period expires to receive credit for your homework and reading assignments.
The order for this class at the bookstore is a bundle that contains the special UCSC version of the textbook plus an access code for Connect for about $120. The ISBN for the bundle is 978-1-30-874997-6. There is also an option to buy just Connect access and the electronic-only copy of the book at http://connect.mheducation.com/class/w17
SmartBook Reading assignments in Connect: One of the things you'll use the electronic version of the book for is the reading assignments. You can read the paper book or the ebook, but to get credit you have to do the on-line questions in the electronic book. There is a button in the SmartBook assignments labeled "Practice" and you click that to get the questions. There is a progress bar across the bottom that lets you know how you are doing.
You will need
to register your iClicker or your polling app. Please have
a clicker or the app (and an account with REEF and a
subscription) by Thursday, January 19th.
Polling app: You can get the REEF polling app and create an account
for it at the REEF website.
You will have to pay for a subscription in order for your poll
responses to be accessible by me and therefore count for your
grade. The app itself is free, but you must have a subscription
so I can get your responses into my gradebook.
iCLickers: You must register your iClicker with your name
and student ID. Registeration for new iClickers is free at
www1.iclicker.com/register-clicker
You can also register an iClicker to your Profile if you have an
account at REEF education.
There is a fee to register used iClickers.
We will be using the iClicker remotes
(electronic, hand-held response pads) or the polling app from REEF
Education. This is to help you assess if you
have understood the material and get feedback from the class. In most classes,
you will get points for simply answering the questions, right or wrong. In some
classes, the clickers will be used for a short quiz. If you skip lectures, or
forget your clicker, you will not get the points from the questions or quiz
that day. Come to lecture and bring your clicker or get the remote
app for your phone!
Your in-class question score will be the
fraction of the total number of points you have accumulated during the term
compared to the total number of points possible. However, I will reduce the
total number of points possible by 10% before I calculate your grades. In other
words, you can miss about 2 lectures and still get up to 100% of the credit
from questions and quizzes.
It will be important to register your remote in order for me to associate it
with you!
There will be one midterm, in class on Tuesday, February 14th. It will cover all material through the lecture on Tuesday, 2/7 and the homework due Thursday, 2/9.
The final exam is scheduled for Wednesday, March 22nd, 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm. It will cover material from the whole quarter. You must take all exams in order to pass the course. The midterm will cover all material up to that point in the course. The final will cover material from the whole quarter.
In addition to the regular lecture,
discussion sections, and TA office hours, there is additional tutoring available
for the course through UCSC. In general, the university provides students
with up to one-hour of tutoring per week per course. You can check out the
resources at the UCSC Learning Center.
You can register here to
sing up for tutoring. If you are registered,
you can sign up for tutoring for a specific class here
If you qualify for classroom accommodations because of a disability, please
submit your Accommodation Authorization from the Disability Resource
Center (DRC) to me after class or at my office hours within
the first two weeks of
the quarter. You must also send me an email documenting what, if any, special
accommodations you require during exams. Contact DRC at 459-2089 (voice),
or drc@ucsc.edu. The DRC web site also has a link for TTY service.
| Week | Reading | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1, 1/10 & 1/12 | Preview, Chapter 1 Section 1.1 Chapter 1 Section 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 |
A short introduction to the course, Motion of the earth on its axis Motion of the earth around the sun, motion and phases of the moon, eclipses, the seasons |
| Week 2, 1/17 & 1/19 | Chapter 2 Sections 2.1 (Size of the Earth), 2.2 (for background), 2.3 Chapter 3 |
Angular diameter distance, the sun at the center of the solar system, Kepler's laws Intertia, momentum, force, Newton's laws of motion, Gravity, orbits |
| Week 3, 1/24 & 1/26 | Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 |
Energy, Conservation of Energy and Momentum, Orbits, Tides Light as energy, Thermal Blackbody, Atoms, Interaction of Light and Matter |
| Week 4, 1/31 & 2/2 | Chatper 4 Section 4.5, 4.6 Chapter 12 |
Doppler shifts, detecting light, spectra in astronomy How the Sun works, the Sun as a star |
| Week 5, 2/7 & 2/9 | Essay 2, Special Relativity TBD |
Special Relativity TBD |
| Week 6, 2/14 & 2/16 | MIDTERM Chapter 13 Section 13.1, 13.2, 13.3 |
On all material through 4/14 Measuring masses, distances and luminosities of stars |
| Week 7, 2/21 & 2/23 | Chapter 13 Section 13.4, 13.5, 13.6 Chapter 14 Sections 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6 |
Spectra of stars, Observed properties of stars in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram Stellar evolution, how stars end their lives |
| Week 8, 2/28 & 3/1 | Chapter 14.7, Chapter 15 Chapter 17 Section 17.1, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5 |
Supernovae, Black Holes, General Relativity Galaxies |
| Week 9, 3/7 & 3/9 | Chapter 17.2, Chapter 18 Section 18.1 Chapter 18 Sections 18.2, 18.3 |
Foundations of Modern Cosmology, the Expanding Universe The Big Bang and the beginning of the universe |
| Week 10, 3/14 & 3/16 | Chapter 17.6, Chapter 18 Sections 18.4, 18.5, 18.6 |
Dark Energy, Dark matter, fate of the universe Overflow, fun |
