The 'Out' in Outreach at Weber State University - a talk for the Austin meeting of the AAPT (Powerpoint, 4.6 Mb)

I spoke about Five Remarkable Women at the Crossroads of Astronomy at ALCON 2002, the national meeting of the Astronomical League held in Salt Lake City.

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Bringing Pulsating Stars into the Physics Classroom is a talk I gave at the joint meeting of the American Astronomical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers in San Diego (January 2001). Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.

This talk on The Incredible Expanding Universe was presented for the S4 (Science Seminars for Superior Students) program at Weber State.

E3: Exploring Europa's Environment was presented to the Utah Science Teachers' Association.

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Instructors:David Spergel, Ed Turner, and Jill Knapp
    Syllabus with Lecture Notes

For a copy of this syllabus in plain text click here:Syllabus

Mon Sep 15: 1. Introduction. Survey of the Solar SystemPSfileor PDFfile
Wed Sep 17: 2. Gravity, Kepler's Laws, OrbitsPSfileor PDFfile Cura mac.
Mon Sep 22: 3. Stellar Properties: mass, luminosity, temperature PSfileor PDFfile
Wed Sep 24: 4. Main sequenceevolution and stellar lifetimesPSfileor PDFfile
Mon Sep 29: 5. Planetary TemperaturesPSfileorPDFfile
Wed Oct 1: 6. Spectroscopy: theory, telescopes, spectrographs PSfile or PDFfile
Mon Oct 6: 7. Radial Velocity Surveys PSfile or PDFfile
Wed Oct 8: 8. Astrometry PSfile or PDFfile
Reading for Lectures 1-8 text file
Mon Oct 13: 9. Gravitational microlensing PSfile or PDFfile
Wed Oct 15: 10. Occultations:First look at Planetary Atmospheres
PDFfile or PSfile
Mon Oct 20: 11. CoronographyPSfile or PDFfile
Wed Oct 22: Midterm
    MIDTERM-BREAK
Mon Nov 3: 13. From the Big Bang to the Beginning of the Solar SystemPSfile or PDFfile
Wed Nov 5: 14. The formation of the Solar System; PSfileor PDFfile
Mon Nov 10: 15. Earth and Earthlike Planets PS file or PDFfile
Wed Nov 12: 16. Pulsar Planets HTMLfile or PDFfile
Mon Nov 17: 17. The Biochemical Basis of Life: Nucleic Acids and Proteins PSfile or PDFfile
Wed Nov 19: 18. Microbes and the Origin of Life PSfile or PDFfile
Mon Nov 24: 19. Possible extraterrestrial biology in the Solar System PSfile or PDFfile
Wed Nov 26: 20. The evolution of advanced/multicellular organisms PSfile or PDFfile
Mon Dec 1: 21. Cosmic, Geological and Human Timescales PSfile or PDFfile
Wed Dec 3 : 22. Remote Sensing of spectroscopic and photometric biomarkers PSfile or PDFfile
Mon Dec 8: 23. SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence PSfile or PDFfile
Wed Dec 10: 24. Scientific Speculations on Extraterrestrial Life PSfile or PDFfile
Textbooks:
The Search for Life in the Universe, by D. Goldsmith and T. Owen (GO),
3rd Edition, University Science Books
Rare Earth: why complex life is uncommon inthe Universe, by D. Brownlee and P. Ward,
Copernicus Books
Life Everywhere: the maverick science of astrobiology, by D. Darling,
Basic Books
Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics,by M. Zeilik, S. Gregory and E. Smith (ZGS)
International Thompson Publishing
The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy,by Frank H. Shu,
University Science Books (Shu)
Intelligent Life in The Universe, by H. Ulmschneider,
Springer-Verlag
The Origin and Evolution of the Universe, eds.B. Zuckerman and M.A. Malkan,
Jones & Bartlett (ZM)

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An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, by B.W.Carroll and D.A. Ostlie,
Addison-Wesley (CO)
The five ages of the Universe: inside the physicsof eternity, by F. Adams and G. Laughlin,
The Free Press
Universe, by W. Kaufmann and R. Freedman,
W.H. Freeman Co.
The Universe, Revealed, by C. Impey and W.K.Hartmann,
Brooks-Cole-Thomson

Carroll Ostlie Astrophysics Solutions

We will place class notes, problem sets etc. on theweb site. The class text will be Goldsmith and Owen (GO). This book covers much of the course material except for the mathematicalaspects. Some of these is covered in the Zeilik et al. book, but thereis not a satisfactory edition of this book. Copies will be placed in thelibrary and much of the mathematical material will appear in the coursenotes. Note that there are several editions of Zeilik et al. with different permutations of authors. For those who wish to purchase amore technical book, we'd recommend Carroll and Ostlie (Shu is excellentbut is a very old text), although the level is more advanced. Ingeneral, Zeilik et al. and Carroll and Ostlie are recommended, not required.

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The 'Rare Earths' and 'Life abounding' books willbe discussed in the precepts. We will attempt to understand why twoquite well-reasoned books can come to such different conclusions.The remaining books listed will be on reserve also(in the Peyton, Firestone and Jadwin libraries) as additional/supplementalreading.You should purchase the first three books for thecourse.

The topic of this course is the discovery of planetsorbiting other stars. The questions of the existence of other planetsand of life on those planets have been with us since the dawn of time. Since the realization that not only the Earth but the other planets ofour Solar System orbit the Sun and that life on Earth depends on sunlight,we have searched for more planets in our own solar system, and for planetsorbiting other stars. In the last ten years these searches have finallysucceeded, and the search for, and study of, other planetary systems isa major theme of current astrophysics, including that done at Princeton.In this course, we want to introduce you to this work; to investigatehow difficult the search for planets is and why it finally succeeded,as well as do an overview of cosmology and star formation, to see howstars 'work' and why we expected that planets around other stars would becommon.