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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 352 Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 352 & ASTR 301 Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: PHYS 253 & MATH 263C. Physical foundations of astronomical observation and theory. Time and coordinate systems, orbits, celestial mechanics, radiation mechanisms, and spectra. Telescopes and instrumentation. Introduction to the physical properties of stars, galaxies, and interstallar matter. Overview of cosmological distance measurements and the "hot big bang" model.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: PHYS 352. Repeated enrollment. Telescope observations and other laboratory studies dealing with astronomy. May be repeated.
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4.00 Credits
(on demand) Differential equations of planetary motion; vector treatments of 2 body problem; determination of orbits of planets and satellites. Prerequisites: ASTR 301 & MATH 340 Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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Prereq: ASTR 305 & MATH 340 & 440. The physics of stellar atmospheres and interiors. Mathematical treatments of radiative transfer, hydrodynamics, and stellar structure; stellar atmospheres and spectra; stellar interiors; and nuclear energy sources. Stellar evolution, red giant stars, pulsating variables; physics of degenerate gases, white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, black holes.
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Prereq: ASTR 305 & MATH 340 & 440. Structure and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy and the interstellar medium. Stellar populations and orbits of stars in the galaxy; galactic dynamics, evolution of the galactic disk and star clusters. Physics of the interstellar gas, absorption and emission processes, HI and HII regions, molecular clouds. Hydrodynamic instabilities, star formation; supernova explosions and shock waves.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: ASTR 305 & MATH 340 & 440. Physics of galaxies and evolution of the universe. Dynamics of galaxy structure, formation, and interaction. Dark matter. Active galactic nuclei, radio galaxies, and quasars. Galaxy clusters and large-scale structure. Cosmological distance measurements, expansion of the universe. Introduction to general relativity; cosmological models, observational tests, cosmic microwave background. Primordial nucleosynthesis.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: ASTR 305. Modern observational techniques and instrumentation. Planning and execution of observational programs; data acquisition, reduction, and analysis; presentation of scientific results. 2 lec. 2 lab.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: ASTR 305. [Seminar contents varies.] May be repeated.
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