About the Course
This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular attention is paid to current projects that promise to improve our understanding significantly over the next few years. The course explores not just what is known, but what is currently not known, and how astronomers are going about trying to find out.

Course Structure
This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2007.

Professor
Charles Bailyn, Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy and Physics

Description
This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular attention is paid to current projects that promise to improve our understanding significantly over the next few years. The course explores not just what is known, but what is currently not known, and how astronomers are going about trying to find out.


+讲义            74.1 MB
| lec1.pdf             2.5 MB
| lec10.pdf             2.4 MB
| lec11.pdf             3.5 MB
| lec12.pdf             6.4 MB
| lec13.pdf             5.7 MB
| lec14.pdf             6.7 MB
| lec15.pdf             5.4 MB
| lec16.pdf             1.1 MB
| lec17.pdf             644.0 KB
| lec18.pdf             816.0 KB
| lec19.pdf             881.0 KB
| lec2.pdf             4.0 MB
| lec20.pdf             2.5 MB
| lec21.pdf             827.0 KB
| lec22.pdf             949.0 KB
| lec23.pdf             765.0 KB
| lec24.pdf             419.0 KB
| lec3.pdf             2.9 MB
| lec4.pdf             7.2 MB
| lec4_1.pdf             419.0 KB
| lec5.pdf             5.4 MB
| lec6.pdf             3.2 MB
| lec7.pdf             4.0 MB
| lec8.pdf             4.4 MB
| lec9.pdf             1.5 MB
+考试            2.2 MB
| 模拟期中考试答案.pdf             1.1 MB
| 模拟期中考试题目.pdf             90.4 KB
| 期末考试.pdf             85.4 KB
| 期中考试2答案.pdf             249.0 KB
| 期中考试2题目.pdf             83.4 KB
| 期中考试答案.pdf             489.0 KB
| 期中考试题目.pdf             89.5 KB
+课程简介            17.3 KB
| Lecture 1 - Introduction.txt             591 Byte
| Lecture 10 - Tests of Relativity.txt             719 Byte
| Lecture 11 - Special and General Relativity (cont.).txt             730 Byte
| Lecture 12 - Stellar Mass Black Holes.txt             687 Byte
| Lecture 13 - Stellar Mass Black Holes (cont.).txt             805 Byte
| Lecture 14 - Pulsars.txt             814 Byte
| Lecture 15 - Supermassive Black Holes.txt             795 Byte
| Lecture 16 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang.txt             768 Byte
| Lecture 17 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.).txt             702 Byte
| Lecture 18 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.).txt             989 Byte
| Lecture 19 - Omega and the End of the Universe.txt             805 Byte
| Lecture 2 - Planetary Orbits.txt             381 Byte
| Lecture 20 - Dark Matter.txt             567 Byte
| Lecture 21 - Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe and the Big Rip.txt             550 Byte
| Lecture 22 - Supernovae.txt             734 Byte
| Lecture 23 - Other Constraints The Cosmic Microwave Background.txt             744 Byte
| Lecture 24 - The Multiverse and Theories of Everything.txt             570 Byte
| Lecture 3 - Our Solar System and the Pluto Problem.txt             504 Byte
| Lecture 4 - Discovering Exoplanets Hot Jupiters.txt             641 Byte
| Lecture 5 - Planetary Transits.txt             545 Byte
| Lecture 6 - Microlensing, Astrometry and Other Methods.txt             694 Byte
| Lecture 7 - Direct Imaging of Exoplanets.txt             796 Byte
| Lecture 8 - Introduction to Black Holes.txt             647 Byte
| Lecture 9 - Special and General Relativity.txt             533 Byte
| Update 1 - The Kepler Mission.txt             474 Byte
| Update 2 - Do Black Holes Spin.txt             411 Byte
| Update 3 - The “Dark Ages” and the Growth of Structure.txt             479 Byte
+课堂习题            1.5 MB
| planetdensity.pdf             134.0 KB
| planetdensity答案.pdf             142.0 KB
| problem_1.pdf             78.4 KB
| problem_1解答.pdf             64.8 KB
| problem_2.pdf             68.7 KB
| problem_2解答.pdf             69.6 KB
| problem_3.pdf             75.3 KB
| problem_3解答.pdf             73.8 KB
| problem_5.pdf             78.3 KB
| problem_5解答.pdf             97.4 KB
| problem_6.pdf             75.0 KB
| problem_6解答.pdf             78.2 KB
| problem_7.pdf             66.5 KB
| problem_7解答.pdf             62.7 KB
| problem_8.pdf             65.1 KB
| problem_8解答.pdf             150.0 KB
| problem_9.pdf             70.6 KB
| problem_9解答.pdf             59.8 KB
课程.txt            1.1 KB