天文物理的前沿與爭議
Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics
2007年春季課程
This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular attention is pai...
- Introduction
- Planetary Orbits
- Our Solar System and the Pluto Problem
- Discovering Exoplanets: Hot Jupiters
- Planetary Transits
- Microlensing, Astrometry and Other Methods
- Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
- Introduction to Black Holes
- Special and General Relativity
- Tests of Relativity
- Special and General Relativity (cont.)
- Stellar Mass Black Holes
- Stellar Mass Black Holes (cont.)
- Pulsars
- Supermassive Black Holes
- Hubble's Law and the Big Bang
- Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
- Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
- Omega and the End of the Universe
- Dark Matter
- Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe and the Big Rip
- Supernovae
- Other Constraints: The Cosmic Microwave Background
- The Multiverse and Theories of Everything
See reading assignments for individual lectures.
Requirements:
There will be weekly problem sets that contain both quantitative problems and essay-type questions. Policies for lateness and collaboration on problem sets are described in the short essay, Problem Sets in Theory and Practice [text].
There will be two in-class tests, and a final exam. All of these exams will be open book, but electronic aids, including calculators, are not allowed.
Discussion sections are required and will form a crucial part of the course: part of each section will be devoted to understanding the current problem set. There will be an optional 6-12 page paper [PDF]. It will be worth 10% and will reduce the weight of the weakest major portion of the grade from 30% to 15%. However, no problems sets or tests can be dropped altogether.
Grading:
Problem sets: 30%
Two in-class exams: 30% (20% for the stronger grade, 10% for the weaker one)
Discussion section attendance and participation: 10%
Final examination: 30%

Professor Charles Bailyn
Charles Bailyn is the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy and Physics and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Astronomy at Yale. He earned a B.S. in astronomy and physics from Yale in 1981 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard in
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