Professor
Chris Sneden
Office: RLM 15.310A
[normally enter 15.312]
Hours: TTh 2:00-3:00
Phone: (512) 471-1349
chris@verdi.as.utexas.edu
Course Website
TA
Shizuka Akiyama
[also for AST 152M]
Office: RLM 16.216
Hours: TBD
Phone: (512) 471-0445
shizuka@astro.as.
utexas.edu
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Text:
None! Notes, suggested readings on reserve in libraries, (hopefully on-line as well).
Grading:
Homework Sets 40% of grade
Hour tests (2 of them) 40%
Class Presentation 20%
Final Exam 0% (last Hour Test during the final exam period)
Subject Matter, Goals, and Miscellaneous Comments
What is it? Who am I speaking to? Astronomy 352K is a junior/senior-level introduction to stellar astronomy and
astrophysics, with emphasis on observational and empirical methods for studying stars via the light they emit. It is designed
mainly for upper-division astronomy majors, but it is also suitable for students majoring in closely related fields such as
physics or engineering.
Prerequisites? The prerequisites for AST 352K are Physics 316 (E&M) or its equivalent, and its prerequisite
Physics 301 (Mechanics), as well as the math required for these courses. Astronomy draws on such a wide variety of areas
in physics that we cannot expect you to have prior preparation in all of them, and so we will introduce physical ideas and laws as
needed. (Examples include the theory of radiation, atomic structure, and statistical mechanics.) We will usually be interested mainly
in applying physical principles, rather than in deep and legthy derivations, and in general the mathematical manipulations expected
of you (e.g., on homework sets) will be pretty straightforward.
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