ASTR220, Spring 2007
COLLISIONS IN SPACE

Instructors: Prof. Andrew Wilson and Prof. Doug Hamilton
Teaching Assistant: Yana Radeva

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~hamilton/ASTR220/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class 1: Introduction /link to the course syllabus/

Class 2: The Structure and Formation of the Solar System

Class 3: Solar System Formation and the Variety of Surface Types

Class 4: The Physics of Collisions and Crater Formation

Class 5: The Physics of Collisions and Cratering (cont.)

Class 6: The Earth's Moon

Class 7: Formation of the Moon and the Nature of Modern Impactors

Class 8: Tunguska and SL-9

Class 9 : Geological ages, life on Earth, and mass extinctions

Class 10: The K-T impact (The Alvarez Theory)

Class 11: Midterm

Class 12: Other mass extinctions & the Nemesis theory

Class 14: Future impacts

Class 15: Collisions in space

Class 16: The Sun and other stars

Class 17: Midterm

Class 18: Properties and evolution of stars

Class 19: Evolution of stars and GRBs

Class 20: The E/M spectrum and the discovery of compact objects

Class 21: Collision rate / binary star discussion on board

Class 22: The Milky Way and other galaxies

Class 23: Other galaxies

Class 24: Binary star discussion in class

Class 25: Galaxy collisions and galaxy formation

Galaxy collisions and galaxy formation continued

Class 26

Class 27