Physics 3368 Syllabus

  • Slides from Chapter 1
  • Diffraction, PHYS 1304 notes: reflection, refraction, diffraction
  • Poisson Statistics
  • Weber-Fechner law, Magnitude class notes, Magnitude from Wikipedia, Farley Ferrante's notes on Magnitude and the HR Diagram, The magnitude scale
  • Slides from Chapter 2: part 1, part 2, part 3
  • The Planck Blackbody Spectrum
  • Homework #2 help
  • Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram
  • The Theory of Gravitation from the Feynman Lectures on Physics
  • 13Feb17 Center of Mass, Kepler's Laws, Newton's Universal Gravitation, Binary Stars, Angular Average, Homework #3 help.
  • 15Feb17 Observed Doppler speeds, binary star mass ratios, Homework #3 help.
  • Mr. Farley Ferrante - Variable Stars and Light Curves
  • Slides from Chapter 3: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.
  • Virial Theorem
  • 20Feb17 Geosynchronous orbit, Gravitational binding energy, Ideal gas law, degrees of freedom.
  • 22Feb17 diatomic molecule degrees of freedom, average mass of gas particles, volume averaged quantities, hydrostatic equilibrium.
  • The Life Cycle of Stars
  • Life of a Star
  • Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #26
  • Star Death and the Creation of Elements - Wonders of the Universe: Stardust
  • Farley Ferrante's notes on White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars,
  • Planck Units
  • Planck Units from Wikipedia
  • Is Middle Earth Flat?
  • 2d Gaussian Curvature notes
  • Gaussian curvature
  • Cosmology Primer by Sean Carroll
  • Why do physicists worry so much about the black hole information paradox? by Sabine Hossenfelder
  • What Do You Mean, The Universe Is Flat? (Part I) by Davide Castelvecchi
  • What Do You Mean, the Universe Is Flat? Part II: In Which We Actually Answer the Question by Davide Castelvecchi
  • Curved Space - The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II, ch 42
  • The Relativistic Rocket
  • Observable Universe
  • Intro to General Relativity
  • Four-vectors
  • List of cosmological horizons
  • Newtonian black hole, Isotropy, Homogeneity, Hubble law.
  • List of the most distant astronomical objects
  • 60 Years Of Starstuff: How Humanity Discovered Where Our Elements Come From
  • PHYS3303 Observational Cosmology by Professor Simon Driver
  • Ned Wright's Javascript Cosmology Calculator
  • How dark matter became a particle
  • Standard Candles in Cosmology







  • Lecture 13 - T 2 Oct
  • Lecture 14 - R 4 Oct - Extreme stars (continued)
  • Lecture 15 - T 9 Oct - Farley's DVD
  • Midterm Exam - R 11 Oct
  • Lecture 16 - R 18 Oct - Higgs Searches in ATLAS
  • Lecture 17 - T 23 Oct - HI Line - 21 cm Emission - Mr. Matthew Rispoli
  • Lecture 18 - R 25 Oct - Curved Space - Feynman Lecture II 42
  • Lecture 19 - T 30 Oct - The Standard Model of Cosmology and Open Questions Bharat Ratra, Kansas State University audio
  • Lecture 20 - R 1 Nov - Professor Nathan Huntoon, SMU Engineering
  • Lecture 21 - T 6 Nov - Professor Nathan Huntoon, SMU Engineering
  • Lecture 22 - R 8 Nov - 2nd half of Bharat Ratra's talk; homework discussion
  • Lecture 23 - T 13 Nov - Mr. Farley Ferrante - Cosmology
  • Lecture 24 - R 15 Nov - Mr. Farley Ferrante - Cosmology, continued
  • Lecture 25 - T 20 Nov - Mr. Landon Banister, Mr. Farley Ferrante
  • Lecture 26 - T 27 Nov - Mr. Garrett Bockman, Ms. Meghan Austin
  • Lecture 27 - R 29 Nov - Mr. Charles Grosslight