Winter quarter 2013
Class meeting time
Tuesday and Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 PM
105 Baskin Engineering
Professor contact information
Prof. Mark Krumholz
109 Center for Adaptive Optics Building
Phone: 459-1312
Email: mkrumhol at REMOVE.THIS.ucsc.edu
Office hours: 109 CfAO, Thursday 1:45 - 4:00 PM, and by appointment
TA contact information
Zach Jennings
255 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
Phone: 459-5722
Email: zgjennin at REMOVE.THIS.ucsc.edu
Office hours: 105 Baskin Engineergin, Monday 2:30 - 3:30 PM and Wednesday, 1:30 - 2:30 PM
MIDTERM EXAM (plus data file); sample solution
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 15; sample solution
Exercise 2, due January 22; sample solution
Exercise 3, due January 29 (data file for the exercise); sample solution
Exercise 4, due February 19; sample solution
Exercise 5, due March 5; sample solution
Exercise 6, due March 19
Quiz Solutions
Quiz 1, January 10
Quiz 2, January 17
Quiz 3, January 24
Notes
Tuesday, January 8: Unix notes, emacs notes, and IDL basics
Thursday, January 10: IDL programs
Tuesday, January 15: Input and output
Thursday, January 17: Color
Tuesday, January 22: 1D and 2D plots
Thursday, January 24: Images (data file to be used in class)
Tuesday, January 29: Curve fitting
Thursday, January 31: Movies and GUIs
Tuesday, February 5: Orbital dynamics
Tuesday, February 19: Thermal diffusion
Tuesday, March 5: Advection plus diffusion