Spring quarter 2010
MWF, 2:00 - 3:10 PM
356 ISB
Schedule of student presentations
Schedule of homework grading
Schedule of final exams
Homework Assignments
Homework 1, due April 21, 2010
Homework 2, due May 3, 2010 (quasar spectrum for problem 1; first column is wavelength in Angstrom, second is normalized intensity)
Homework 3, due May 14, 2010
Homework 4, due May 24, 2010
Homework 5, due June 7, 2010
Lecture Notes
Monday, March 29: Class 1: An Overview of the ISM and IGM (slides: ppt, pdf)
Wednesday, March 31: Class 2: Collision Rates in the ISM
Friday, April 2: Class 3: Statistical Mechanics in the ISM
Monday, April 12: Class 4: Atomic and Molecular Structure
Monday, April 12: Class 5: Photon Emission and Absorption
Wednesday, April 14: Class 6: Radiative Transfer, presentation on Neufeld (1990)
Friday, April 16: Class 7: HI 21 cm Emission and Absorption
Monday, April 19: Class 8: Absorption Spectroscopy
Monday, April 19: Class 9: Thermal Plasma Emission, presentation on Savage & Sembach (1991)
Wendesday, April 21: Class 10: Ionization, Recombination Processes I, homework 1 due
Friday, April 23: Class 11: Recombination Processes II, Collisional Ionization Equilibrium
Monday, April 26: Class 12: Photoionization Equilibrium, presentation on Ferland et al. (1998) and Kewley et al. (2001)
Monday, April 26: Class 13: Collisionally Excited Lines
Wednesday, April 28: Class 14: Collisionally Excited Line Diagnostics
Friday, April 30: Class 15: Radiative Trapping, presentation on Goldreich & Kwan (1974)
Monday, May 3: Class 16: Interstellar Dust: Observations (slides: ppt, pdf)
Wednesday, May 5: Class 17: Dust-Radiation Interaction
Friday, May 7: Class 18: Grain Charging, presentation on Weingartner & Draine (2001)
Monday, May 10: Class 19: HII Regions: Thermodynamics
Monday, May 10: Class 20: HII Regions: Dynamics
Wednesday, May 12: Class 21: The Orion HII Region (slides: ppt, pdf), presentation on Franco et al. (1990)
Friday, May 14: Class 22: HI: Thermodynamics (slides: ppt, pdf)
Monday, May 17: Class 23: HI: Dynamics
Wednesday, May 19: Class 24: Shock Dynamics in HI (slides: ppt, pdf, movie), presentation on Wolfire et al. (2003) and Walter et al. (2008)
Friday, May 21: Class 25: Molecular Gas: The HI to H_2 Transition
Friday, May 21: Class 26: Molecular Gas: Giant Molecular Clouds
Monday, May 24: Class 27: Molecular Gas: Collapse and Star Formation, presentation on Draine & Bertoldi (1996) and Krumholz et al. (2008)
Monday, May 24: Class 28: Hot Gas: Thermodynamics and Dynamics (slides: ppt, pdf)
Wednesday, May 26: Class 29: Global ISM Models (slides: ppt, pdf)