Announcements

  • Final review notes posted here. Note that the last half of the slides are review questions. Good luck!
  • A review section for Midterm 2 will be held in Humanities Lecture Hall 206 at 6pm on Tuesday 11/8/11 where we will go over the practice midterm which is posted here. A map can be found here.
  • Full Midterm 2 review notes with some example problems are posted here.
  • Radiation summary slides are posted here.
  • Online demos from 10/28/11 are posted in Resources section.
  • Online demos and movies from 10/14/11 posted in Resources section.
  • Online demos and movies from 9/30/11 posted in Resources section.

Discussion Section Info

  • Location: Physical Sciences Building (PSB), Room 114. For directions, check the UCSC map here.
  • Time: Mondays, 5-6:10pm and Fridays, 11am-12:10pm
  • Contact: jnaiman_at_ucolick_dot_org

Office Hours

  • Location: Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (ISB), Room 201. Also check the lobby next to my office, or ISB 126.
  • For directions, check the location on the UCSC map here.

Resources

    Class Websites

  • Professor Raja Guha Thakurta's website for Astronomy 1 can be found here.
  • The other TA for this class, Hassen Yesuf, has a useful website where he will also be posting handouts and other resources.

    Notes

  • Notes for the Final are here. Note the last half of the slides are review problems. Good luck!
  • Notes for Midterm 2 (and some extra problems) can be found here.
  • Notes for Midterm 1 are available here.
  • Radiation summary notes are available here.

    Practice Problems

  • A few extra practice problems for Midterm 2 are found at the end of these notes.
  • Practice Midterm 1 is available from Hassen's website here.
  • A few extra practice problems from my section for midterm 1 are posted here.

    External Links

  • There are a few movies of different Astronomy concepts here. In week 1 we looked at a few movies from the "Season's" section. In week 3 we looked at "Absorption Spectrum of the Sun" and both of the "Doppler Shift" movies in the "Spectra" section.
  • A few interactive demonstrations can be found here. We looked at the "Declinations Range Simulator" in week 1. In week 3 we looked at the "Blackbody Curves of Melting" simulation. In week 5 we looked at the "Galactic Redshift Simulator."
  • Some discussion of Infrared Radiation can be found here.