Winter quarter 2011
Class meeting time
Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 AM
105 Baskin Engineering
Professor contact information
Prof. Mark Krumholz
109 Center for Adaptive Optics Building
Phone: 459-1312
Email: krumholz at REMOVE.THIS.ucolick.org
Office hours: 109 CfAO, Tuesday 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM, and by appointment
TA contact information
John Forbes
355 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
Phone: 459-4485
Email: jcforbes at REMOVE.THIS.ucsc.edu
Office hours: 126 ISB, Monday 1:45 - 2:45 PM and 105 Baskin Engineering, Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Miscellaneous notes
Instructions for how to connect to the campus unix system and start IDL using a windows or mac machine.
Instructions for how to set up shared directories for group projects
Homework Assignments
Exercise 1, due January 11
Exercise 2, due January 18
Exercise 3, due January 25
Exercise 4, due February 15
Exercise 5, due March 1
Exercise 6, due March 15
Notes
Tuesday, January 4: Unix notes, emacs notes, and IDL basics
Thursday, January 6: IDL programs
Tuesday, January 11: Input and output
Thursday, January 13: Color
Tuesday, January 18: 1D and 2D plots
Thursday, January 20: Images (data file to be used in class)
Tuesday, January 25: Curve fitting
Thursday, January 27: Movies and GUIs
Tuesday, February 1: Orbital dynamics
Tuesday, February 15: Thermal diffusion
Tuesday, March 1: Advection