January 14 (Mon)

• Syllabus and overview
• Lecture 1 (ppt, pdf)

January 16 (Wed)

• Physical Processes in the Solar System, a brief survey
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.714-719
• Lecture 2 (ppt, pdf)

January 18 (Fri)

• Tidal forces
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.719-724
• Lecture 3 (ppt, pdf)

January 23 (Wed)

• The physics of atmospheres
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.724-732
• Lecture 4 (ppt, pdf)

January 25 (Fri)

• Mercury
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.737-740
• Lecture 5 (ppt, pdf)

January 28 (Mon)

• Venus
• Simulated flight over Venus
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.740-745
• Lecture 6 (ppt, pdf)

January 30 (Wed)

• Earth
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.745-754
• Lecture 7 (ppt, pdf)

February 1 (Fri)

• Moon
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.754-762
• Lecture 8 (ppt, pdf)

February 4 (Mon)

• Mars
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Soaring Views of Red Planet
• Google Mars
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.762-770
• Lecture 9 (ppt, pdf)

February 6 (Wed)

• The giant planets
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.775-790
• Lecture 10 (ppt, pdf)

February 8 (Fri)

• The Jovian Moons
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.790-801
• Lecture 11 (ppt, pdf)

February 11 (Mon)

• Planetary ring systems
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.801-807
• Lecture 12 (ppt, pdf)

February 13 (Wed)

• Pluto-Charon systems, comets
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.813-820
• Lecture 13 (ppt, pdf)

February 15 (Fri)

• Comets, dust disks around white dwarfs
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.820-830
• Lecture 14 (ppt, pdf)

February 18 (Mon)

• Asteroids
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.830-838
• Lecture 15 (ppt, pdf)

February 20 (Wed)

• Meteorites
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.838-844
• Lecture 16 (ppt, pdf)

February 22 (Fri)

• Formation and evolution of planetary system
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.848-869
• Lecture 17 (ppt, pdf)

February 25 (Mon)

• Formation and evolution of planetary system
• Reading: Carroll & Ostlie pp.848-869
• Lecture 18 (ppt, pdf)

February 27 (Wed)

• planetary systems around white dwarfs
• Helix central star, Spitzer survey of hot WDs
• Lecture 19 (pptx)

March 1 (Fri)

• Observations of Star Formation
• Lecture 20 (ppt)

March 4 (Mon)

• Star Formation
• Lecture 21 (pdf, notes)

March 6 (Wed)

• Interstellar medium - what is diffuse matter?
• Lecture 21 (ppt, pdf)

March 8 (Fri)

• Heating of the ISM
• Microscopic processes in the ISM

March 11 (Mon)

• review

March 13 (Wed)

• Hour Exam

March 15 (Fri)

• energy levels - notations and diagrams
• energy level notation/diagram

March 25 (Mon)

• Snow day, class cancelled.

March 27 (Wed)

• Cooling of the ISM
• Life of H
• Microscopic processes in the ISM, Life of H

March 29 (Fri)

• Photoionization and recombination
• Photoionization and recombination, recombination coefficient of H

April 1 (Mon)

• Photoionization and recombination (cont.)
• Photoionization and recombination

April 3(Wed), 5 (Fri)

• Thermal equilibrium
• Thermal Equilibrium, Collision strengths, transition probabilities

April 8 (Mon), 10 (Wed), 12 (Fri)

• Theory vs Observation
• Theory vs Observation, Examples of nebulae

April 15 (Mon), 17 (Wed)

• Gas dynamics
• Gas Dynamics

April 19 (Fri), 22 (Mon)

• Dynamical effects of stars - bubbles, superbubbles, planetary nebulae
• Dynamical effects of stars

April 24 (Wed)

• Dynamical effects of stars - bubbles, superbubbles, planetary nebulae
• Multi-phase interstellar medium
• Dynamical effects of stars, Multi-phase ISM

April 26 (Fri)

April 29 (Mon)

May 1 (Wed)