Announcements! Updated 8:00 PM, September 15, 2008 The Final Exam results have been returned to the boxes. The average was about 25.6/38. Final Exam keys: Version A Version B Version C HW 5 solutions should be accessible now. Final will cover everything through this week's material. All questions on the final from this week were also given in lecture. From Ski about material covered: We've covered at least the main points of everything on the syllabus with a couple exceptions: we skipped stellar spectral types, and we left the descriptive material on the planets to the reading. ANOTHER PRACTICE FINAL can be found here. Answers are at the end of the test. The actual final will have a number of questions comparable to the midterm. FINAL EXAM INFO: The Final Exam will be held at 12:30 pm in Broida 1640 on Thursday, September 11th. Please note this is NOT the same room where we hold lecture (It's the room where we held the review) and will be 80 minutes long. Please be sure to bring a calculator, a couple of No. 2 pencils, and a pink 8-1/2 x 11 scantron sheet with your full name and perm number already bubbled in. Be sure to also sign it if you don't want to make arrangements with the professor to pick up the results from him. Also, make sure you first bubble in the version of the test (A, B, or C) that you are doing when you receive the exam. FINAL REVIEW SLIDES: The Final Review slides are now posted under Victor's Discussion slides in the Review section of the website. OBSERVING SESSION is a go for tonight! MIDTERM UPDATE: Question 21 on Version A, 26 on Version B, and Question 1 on Version C, both A and C were correct answers. You will be given credit if you answered either one. Check this announcements page at 5pm on Friday if it appears it may be cloudy for the Observing Session. Homework 5 is now posted. Final Review Session: will be held on Friday, September 5th from 5-6:30 pm in Broida 1640. Observing Session Will be held on Friday, September 5th at 7:45 pm on the rooftop of Broida. Take the stairs near the elevators past the 6th floor to the rooftop. Exit through the door and head right. You should see the telescopes already set up there. Practice final can be found here. Notes for homework: 1. write with large enough font so that a magnifying glass is not needed for reading it 2. use a pen 3. mark the problems very clearly 4. do the problems in consecutive order HW 4 Solutions are posted. Midterm post-mortem Wednesday, 5-8pm, Broida 1610 MIDTERM INFO: The average score for the class on the midterm was 22/38 with the highest score being 34/38. Here are the keys for the test: Key A Key B Key C HW 4 problems are now posted and are due on Wednesday, September 3rd. HW 3 solutions are also posted. Midterm only covers through Chapter 5 as was stated in the lecture. Be sure to bring a 8-1/2 x 11 pink scantron sheet, a calculator, and two No. 2 pencils. HW 3 problems and HW 2 solutions are posted. HW 3 solutions will be posted Wednesday, August 27th. Practice Midterm can be found here. HOMEWORK 1 SOLUTIONS are now posted. ALL DISCUSSION SECTIONS will be held today at all the usual times. HW 2 is now posted. Go to the homework section to download. Please note the due date is now Wednesday, August 20th. WELCOME TO ASTRO 1! Please read below for important information. The syllabus is available in MS Word format and in PDF format. TEXTBOOKS: There are plenty available in the UCSB Bookstore for purchase. Please be sure to get your textbook as soon as possible. The textbook is UNIVERSE, 8th edition. Details are below. QUIZZES: There will be an in-class quiz held about once a week. TURN-IN QUESTIONS ON THE READING:Before EVERY CLASS MEETING, you must turn in a written question about the reading for that class. Here I'm trying to get you to take at least a brief look at the text before the corresponding lecture. TURNING IN HOMEWORKS: Your homework should be dropped off at the locked turn-in boxes at the back of the lecture hall (Broida 1610) by the end of class on the day that it is due; these are the large boxes labeled "Astro 1" with locked doors and slots for sliding papers through (just like dropping off letters at the post office). Please do not leave your homework in the open slots without locked doors or in the boxes without an "Astro 1" label! If you do, we might miss your homework when collecting the other assignments, or worse, your homework might get lost. We want you to get credit for the work you've done, so please be sure to turn in your work to the proper location! The Astronomy 1 turn-in boxes are labeled with "Astro 1" underneath. Do NOT turn in your homework to unlabeled drop boxes, or else it will not be collected and you will not receive credit! If you can't find the box labeled with your part of the alphabet, look in the entryway on the other side of the lecture hall. RECEIVING GRADED HOMEWORKS: your graded homeworks will available for collection in the mail slots at the entrance to the lecture hall. HOMEWORK GRADING POLICY: due to limitations in resources as well as the large number of students in the class, we have instituted the following grading policy. Each week, we will select two problems to grade thoroughly. This problem will be worth 10 points. We will perform a rudimentary check of the remaining problems just to make sure you are on the right track and made a reasonable effort. Each of these problems will be worth 5 points. You will not know in advance which problems are to be thoroughly graded, so do the best you can on every problem! About this Website This website is ever changing and may contain typos and/or errors. If you feel something posted here is in error, please e-mail both Dr. Antonucci and Victor Sciortino and it should be rectified shortly. The structure of this site is as follows: This page will contain important Announcements in the above section and everything printed in the course syllabus below. A printable version of the course syllabus can be found here. The "Homework Assignments" button on the navigation bar to the left will go to another page where you will be able to find the current and all past homework assignments. The "Class Calendar" button will go to another page where you can find the schedule for upcoming classes, including when exams will be held and what subjects will be covered in lecture. The "Review and Transparencies" section contains short summaries of the topics gone over in class. It will also contain copies of the transparencies shown in the Lecture. The "Extra Credit" section contains various bits of information concerning the extra credit assignments you will be able to do throughout the course. The "Science and Society" link goes to a page containing various bits of society in the real world, normally as reported through various news outlets. The "Astronomy Links" button will go to another page where you will be able to find useful and interesting links related to the field of astronomy. To view homework and the printable syllabus requires Adobe Acrobat reader which can be downloaded free of charge. Instructor Dr. Robert Antonucci Office: Broida 2015 K Telephone: 805-893-4350 e-mail: antonucci@physics.ucsb.edu Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00-3:30 PM, or by appointment. Teaching Assistants Ellie Hadjiyska e-mail: ellie@physics.ucsb.edu Office Hours: Th 11-12:30pm, 3:30-5pm Victor Sciortino e-mail: vsciortino@physics.ucsb.edu Office Hours: Th 1:30-3pm (trying to change to Friday same time) All TA office hours will be held in the Physics Study Center (PSC) which is located in Broida Hall Room 1019. In the first floor room of Broida where the elevators are located, there is a hallway to the left as you look at the elevators. This is the location of the PSC room. It's best to come by when your TA is holding office hours, but TAs are on duty to answer your questions from 9:00-4:00 daily. Class Times MTW 12:30-1:55 PM, Broida 1610. Four credit hours. Attendance is required. DISCUSSION SECTIONS: Thursday -- Time 12:30-1:50 pm -- Broida 1640 Thursday -- Time 12:30-1:50 pm -- Phelps 3505 Thursday -- Time 2:00-3:20 pm -- North Hall 1105 Attendance is required for one discussion section per week as important things may take place that do not in the full lecture. You may attend any of the above discussion sections regardless of the section you signed up for when you registered for classes. Textbook R.A. Freedman and W.J. Kaufmann, Universe (8th edition). On some topics more detail is given than we can absorb in one term. See the schedule below for the detailed requirements. Don't try to read everything in the book unless you have a lot of free time! Observing Sessions One night-time observing session will be held during the quarter. You must attend (i.e., there will be something to turn in which will contribute to your grade). Date and time will be announced in class. Homework Homework will be due on Mondays, to be turned in to the labeled locked boxes at the back of the lecture room by the end of class. The turn-in boxes will be labeled alphabetically according to the first letter of your last name. Please make sure you turn in your homework to the correct box! Save all of your graded homework assignments and tests, both for reference, and in case you think a grading error has been made. You may work with others on your homework problems, but you must write them up yourself, using your own words. If you hand in a paper that is nearly identical to your friends', you will both receive zero credit, since we won't know who did the work. After each homework assignment has been handed in, solutions will be posted on our website. For this reason late homework will NOT be accepted except for emergencies. (In case of emergency, let me know before the due date, if possible.) Grading Your grade in Astronomy 1 will be determined as follows: Midterm, 25% Homework, 28% Final, 30% Quizzes, 10% Questions by email, 5% Observing Session, 2% Total will be curved, with about half receiving an A or B. Website We will maintain an internet website for this class here. It will be a convenient source of class information, including homework solutions. It is also an excellent link to astronomy sites that provide the latest results and authoritative information on astronomical discoveries. This is a very important resource in the class, which should be consulted every day or two. After the first week, homework assignments and other documents will be posted here and not handed out. Disclaimer This is a relatively rigorous science class, which many students find quite challenging. It satisfies the University requirement for a quantitative science class. The main tools of astronomy, besides observation, are math and physics. We will learn and apply some basic physics in this class. There are no course prerequisites, but experience shows that virtually every student can do fine in the class, with lots of work and help from the instructor. I will be happy to help you as much as you want. If office hours are inconvenient you can call me for an appointment or try just stopping by or consulting by e-mail or telephone. Periodically during the quarter I'll post summary sheets on our website listing the most important points from the previous week or two of class. If you don't understand something on a summary sheet, please ask. Calendar See separate Calendar page here. How to get an A in this Class TEXTBOOKS: Read the indicated sections of the textbooks carefully. Just SKIMMING the sections BEFORE class will help you understand the lectures. You can save the careful reading for after class if you prefer. Follow the reading advice on the syllabus closely. TURN IN EVERY HOMEWORK: There are no extensions on the HW, unless you have a family emergency or illness. It really hurts your average to miss a HW and get a zero on it. GO TO LECTURE: Often in class I'll show you a multiple-choice qualitative question and ask you to vote on the answers. Then you will have a chance to discuss it with your neighbors and vote again. All of these questions will appear on the exams, so you'll go into the exams knowing many questions in advance. REVIEW THE HOMEWORK: When I make up test questions, I use the HW for inspiration for many of them; that is, many are slight modifications (and usually simplifications since test time is tight) of HW questions. So if you go into the tests with a good understanding of all the HW questions, you'll have a huge advantage. TAKE PRACTICE TESTS: We'll post practice tests on the website, and go over them in review sessions. When you take a practice test, give yourself the same time limit as for the actual test. If you are unsure of the reasoning on any problems from the practice test, please get help on it. This concludes the Syllabus. A printable copy can be found here. Webmaster The Summer 2008 Astro 1 website and graphics were created by Justin Steinfadt and are maintained by Victor Sciortino. Contact Victor to submit comments, suggestions, and errors noticed. Computer Settings This site was designed for monitors running under the 1024 by 768 pixel resolution. It is recommended that you set your monitor to the 16 bit color tobetter appreciate some of the graphics and images. Anything less than these settings might not look good, you have been warned. Most astronomical images are associated with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Space Telescope Science Institute (except where noted). HST and STScI images are under a general public license and are free for anyone to use, so long as they are properly referenced.	Click the Image for a larger one. Click the Text for Image information. LBT First Light - NGC 891 LBT On October 12th, 2005, the largest single mount telescope saw "first light." M51 - Galaxy (HST) M104 - Galaxy (HST) Hoag's Object - Galaxy (HST) (HST)

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