Origins: Stars, Planets, and Life
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| AST 324 | Spring 1998 |
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| Date | Topic | Reading Assignments (all in Guth) | Homework Due |
| 1/20 | Introduction, Themes, Issues | ||
| 1/22 (Sneden) | The Nature of Light | Forward, Preface, Chapter 1, Appendix C | |
| 1/27 (Sneden) | The Expanding Universe | Chapter 2, Appendices A, B | |
| 1/29 | Models of the Universe | Chapter 3 | Homework #1 |
| 2/3 | Cosmic Background Radiation | Chapter 4 | |
| 2/5 | First Three Minutes, Nucleosynthesis | Homework #2 | |
| 2/10 | Big Bang Problems | Chapters 6, 10 (pp. 176-181) | |
| 2/12 | Particle Physics | Chapter 7 | Homework #3 |
| 2/17 | Unification | Chapter 8 | |
| 2/19 | Inflation | Chapters 9, 10 | Homework #4 |
| 2/24 | New Inflation, etc. | Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 | |
| 2/26 | Review | ||
| Help Session (evening) | |||
| 3/3 | First Test |
| Evans's 324 | Astronomy Department |