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- Instructor(s)
- Suyama Teruaki
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- Lecture (ZOOM)
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- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Tue5-6(W351) Fri5-6(W351)
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- Course number
- PHY.F352
- Credits
- 2
- Academic year
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2020/9/18
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Course description and aims
This course introduces basic knowledges about astronomy and astrophysics, and gives introductory reviews on physical bases required to understand phenomena in the Universe. With this course, students get to know that even the cosmic events of extraordinary scales can be understood from fundamental physics laws. Furthermore, this course aims to nourish practical capabilities to solve real-world physics problems through exercises to obtain order-of-magnitude estimations of physical quantities in astrophysical phenomena by applying physics laws.
Student learning outcomes
【Goals】 To learn the basic concepts and knowledges required to understand the current views on the Universe and unresolved problems. To understand astrophysical phenomena based on physical principles.
【Thema】 The Universe is the most intellectually fascinating object to the human kind. Researches on the Universe started from the sun and the moon, then extended to the planets and stars, and then beyond the Milky Way out to its horizon. Get familiar with the Universe from the view point of physics.
Keywords
Radiation processes, electromagnetic waves, stellar structure, stellar evolution, compact objects, galaxies, Hubble's law, Big Bang, cosmic background radiation, gravitational wave, inflation, dark matter, dark energy
Competencies that will be developed
| ✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
Lectures will be given mainly by using blackboads.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Problems in modern astrophysics | Understand the how physical laws are related to astrophysical phenomena |
| Class 2 | How to measure distances in the Universe | Present methods and principles for measurements of distances to celestial bodies |
| Class 3 | Radiation and blackbody | Give the spectrum and radiation energy of a star assuming it is a blackbody. |
| Class 4 | Internal Structure of Stars | Present the fundamental equations that determine the structure of a star. |
| Class 5 | Extra solar planets | Explain the methods to detect extra solar planets. |
| Class 6 | White dwarfs | Explain the Chandrasekhar limit. |
| Class 7 | Neutron stars | Derive the formulae that give estimation of the age and the surface magnetic field of a pulsar from its rotation period and its time derivative. |
| Class 8 | Black holes | Explain the basic properties of black holes. |
| Class 9 | Gravitational waves | Explain the basic properties of gravitational waves. |
| Class 10 | uniform and isotropic universe | Explain the Friedmann equation. |
| Class 11 | inflation | Explain the motivation to introduce inflation. |
| Class 12 | primordial fluctuations | Explain the mechanism to generate the primordial fluctuations. |
| Class 13 | dark matter | Explain the motivation to introduce dark matter. |
| Class 14 | dark energy | Derive the condition for matter to cause the accelerated expansion of the universe. |
Out-of-Class Study Time (Preparation and Review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
No textbook is specified. The course materials are uploaded at OCW.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Dan Maoz "Astrophysics in a nutshell" Princeton University Press
Assessment criteria and methods
Scores are based on the final exam.
Related courses
- LAS.P101 ： Fundamentals of Mechanics 1
- LAS.P102 ： Fundamentals of Mechanics 2
- PHY.E205 ： Electromagnetism
- PHY.Q207 ： Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
- PHY.S301 ： Statistical Mechanics
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
No prerequisites are specified, but basic knowledge of mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics are desirable.
