Problem sets: will be due in class on Wednesdays.

Problem Set 1 (due in class Wed Jan 19)
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Problem Set 2 (due in class Wed Jan 26)
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Problem Set 3 (due in class Wed Feb 2)
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Problem Set 4 (due in class Wed Feb 9)
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Problem Set 5 (due in class Wed Feb 23)
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Problem Set 6 (due in class Wed Mar 2)

Problem Set 7 (due in class Wed Mar 23)

Problem Set 8 (due in class Wed Mar 30)
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Problem Set 9 (due in class Wed April 13)
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Problem Set 10 (due in class Wed April 20)
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Course Outline:

Week of Jan 10: The death of massive stars -- supernovae, neutron stars, black holes

Jan 10: Star clusters and Supernovae

Jan 12: Pulsars and Black Holes

Week of Jan 17: (MLK holiday) Milky Way: structure -- stars and ISM

Jan 19: Structure of the Milky Way

Week of Jan 24: Milky Way: measuring distances; stellar populations

Jan 24: Structure of the Milky Way: ISM and metallicity

Jan 26: Metallicity and the distance scale

Week of Jan 31: Milky Way: kinematics, galactic center. Our environment: the Local Group.

Jan 31: Distances, kinematics in the Milky Way disk

Feb 2: Disk heating, the bar and galaxy mergers

Week of Feb 7: The Milky Way center; Galaxies: the Hubble Sequence

Feb 7: The galactic center, bulge and halo of the Milky Way

Feb 9: Galaxies: the Hubble Sequence

Week of Feb 14: Dark matter (could it be Valentines day chocolates?)

Feb 14: Galaxy spectra and dark matter

Feb 16: Dark matter and particle physics

Flowchart on how to make up a particle dark matter candidate

Week of Feb 21: Elliptical galaxies -- structure and kinematics

Feb 21: (dark matter and) Elliptical galaxies

Feb 23: Elliptical galaxies, shells, star formation history of galaxies

Week of Feb 28: Spiral galaxies -- structure and dark matter

Feb 28: Disk galaxies, spiral density waves

Mar 2: Tully Fisher relationship and the Fundamental plane

Week of Mar 7: SPRING BREAK!!

Week of Mar 14: Starburst galaxies, Galaxy interactions, Active Galactic Nuclei

Mar 16: Galaxy interactions and AGN

Week of Mar 21: The large-scale structure of the universe, galaxy clusters

Mar 21: Large-scale structure

Mar 23: Galaxy Clusters

Week of Mar 28: The expanding universe -- dynamics, curved spacetime

Mar 28: Cosmology - the expanding universe

Mar 30: Olbers Paradox

Week of Apr 4: Early Universe -- the Big Bang and after. Inflation, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the microwave background

April 4: Newtonian approximation to cosmology

April 6: Density of matter in the universe, curved space

Week of Apr 11: Observational cosmology, the age of the universe

April 11: Dynamics beyond the Newtonian approximation

April 13: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Week of Apr 18: Cosmology with supernovae, Lambda, Galaxy formation and the growth of structure

April 18: Lambda

April 20: Lambda