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Everyone is to submit a final
version of their paper on 12-3,
along with the last edited,
graded version of their paper.
See "Readings" for what to read for lectures and labs.
Coverage in my chapters
Day Date
Subject matter
03 9-06-13
Chapter 2 on celestial coordinates
04 9-10-13 Chapter 3 on diurnal
motion and time.
05 9-13-13: Chapter 4 on precession
and calendar; Chapter 5 thru 5B
11. 10-04-13 Chapter 7
12. 10-08-13: Chapter 7 completed
13 10-11-13: Chapter 8 completed,
14. 10-15-13: Chapter 9 completed; Chap. 10-1.
18. 11-01-13: Completed Chapter 11 and 12.
19. 11-05-13: Completed Chapter 13 on H-R Diag/
& Spec. Parlx. Started
Chap 14 on Stel. Evol .
20. 11-08-13: Stellar Evol: M-S.
21. 11-12-13: Stellar Evol. thru Chapter 14-5.
22. 11-15-13: Exoplanets; Stel. Evol. thru
neutron stars (Chp. 14-8)
23. 11-19-13 Presentations on star formation,
brown dwarfs & stellar winds;
Lec.: general rel. and black holes
24. 11-22-13: Presentations on supernovae, black
holes & dark matter.
Lec.: Finished Chap. 14.
25. 11-26-13: Presentations on AGN and Dark
Energy. Lec on Chp. 15 thru P-L Law.
26. 12-03-13: Presentation on GUT; Chapter
15 completed. Began Chapter 17
27. 12-06-13: Chapter 17, Quasars, and Chapter
18 completed.
Problems
For all assignments, use only 8.5 x 11 inch
white paper without serrated edges.
Write on only one side of a page. If
a problem is more than one page long,
staple together the pages of that problem
but do not staple together the pages
of different problems.
A two page summary of your paper is due Fri.,
9-06-2013.
A five page summary of your paper is due Fri.,
9-20-2013.
An eight page version of your paper is due
Fri., 10-11-2013.
A ten page version of your paper is due 1.5
weeks after the 8 page version is
returned to you. This paper will be
graded on a 100 point basis
Prepare a presentation of your paper in class.
You may use power point. You
will be graded by your peers.
Submit problem 2-D.1 (Ex. 1.0) and 3-G.1for grading on 9-13-2013.
Submit problem 2-D.2, 3-C.1 and 3-G.2
for grading on 9-17-2013. For Ex. 2-D.2,
stars are identified with a Greek letter and
a number. Record both and the
constellation in which the star is located.
Submit problem 5-C.1 and 5-D1 for grading on 9-24-2013.
Submit 6-A.1 on 10-01-2013:
Compute the position of Mars in
its orbit every 10 days starting at perihelion
(t=0). Be careful when using the
arc-cos function: the true anomaly must go
from 0 to 360 degrees. Normalize
r to the perihelion distance in km.
You have to figure out how to do this algebraically
before you write your program.
Provide the following:
1. A brief description (< 1 page,
double spaced) of what you did and how you did it,
including derving
the expression for normalizing r. This description should
not be in programming,
but in terms of the calculations.
2. A printout of your program
with explanatory comments.
3. Table 1 of input orbital parameters
with units.
4. Table 2 of orbital coordinates t,
r, upsilon, x, and y, with units. Tables must
have column
headers giving units and tables must be captioned.
5. A full page graph of x versus
y with units and a caption. Make sure the x and
y scales are
the same or you won't see the proper shape of the orbit. Plot the
data points
as a scatter plot; do not connect the data points with a curve. Draw
the major and
minor axes of the ellipse and label them.
6. Also repeat your calculations
for Halley's Comet and make a separate graph.
Problem 7-B2 and 7-13 are due Fri, 10-04-2013.
Assignment 7-B1 is due 10-08-2013
Problem 7-C.3 is due 10-08-2013.
Problem 7-E.3 is due 10-15-2013
Problem 6-D1 is due 10-15-2013
Peoblem 7-15 is due 10-18-2013
Problem 7-16 is due 10-22-2013. Submit your
program, the graph (properly
annotated and formatted, an additional typed
page of your explanation. Do
not submit any data out put tables.
Problem 7-17 is due Nov. 8
Rewrite the program you wrote
for 7-16 to make it more efficient by
dimensionalizing T as a vector where each
value of T is indexed asT(i)
(See my manual). Then use a Do loop
or Dowhile loop to compute the
S-B law and Planck Function for each value
of T(i). This replaces
rewriting the equations 5 times or writing
5 different programs.
Submit:
A cover page
The program
The output Table with 3 columns: T, B and
F, properl;y formatted with
caption, which you can add in Word.
No graph is needed.
Submit 8-1, 11-3, 11-5, 11-11 on Nov. 5.
Submit Z&G problem 11-12 and RJP 14-12
on Tues., Nov. 12. How to do RJP-14
may be found in Z&G Chap. 16 on thermonuclear
reactions.
Submit RJP 7-22 on Tues., Nov. 19. Measure
on the chart in cm to 2 decimal places
and maintain this precision all the way to
the end. The wavelengths on the chart are
exact for all intents and purposes, that is,
the wavelengths, such as 5800 Ang., have at least
two decimal place precision. Always when determining
a chart scale, one measures the largest
distance possible between two fiducial marks
in order to average out errors of measurement,
both on the ruler and on the chart.
Calculate the radial velocities in km/s.
Submit RJP 14-22 on Tues.,
Assume the white dwarfconsists entirely of C12 nuclei and
neglect the electrons.
Assume the luminosty of the WD stays constant. This is
not realistic but otherwise
you would have to solve a differential equation.
Submit Z&G Problem 14-6a,b,c
on Fri., 12-6. Label the total mass within radius R, Mtot.
For part b, express the mass
within r<R in terms of Mtot.
In part c, first find the circular
orbital speed v in terms of r, G, R & Mtot before
finding the angular speed.
Newly assigned to be done but not submitted:
7-20
All my Chapter 11,13 & 14 problems
Also do Z&G problems 11-2, 11-4, 11-5, 11-11, 11-12
Z&G Probs.: 15-1, 16-1 (See pages 314f), 16-10, 17-1a.
The following, in blue, have not been assigned yet.
Problem 4-D.1:
Read the paper by L. Winkler in the Am. J. Physics
(1972), 40, 126. Then take the
1950.0 equaotorial coordinates of Fomahaut and
precess them to the 2050 epoch.
Give the reference for the coordinates of Fomalhaut.
Z&G Probs.: 15-18a (taken
from Chap.15-3A)
Tests
Test No. 1 on 10-25-2013.
Final Exam is Dec. 13 at 8:00