Syllabus for Ph136b, Winter Term 2018/19
The class will roughly follow Chapters 13-23 of the textbook developed for this course by Roger Blandford and Kip Thorne.
Important Dates
January 7 - first class
February 6-12 - midterm exam period (this course will not have a midterm)
Feb 27 -Drop Day
March 12 - Last lecture
March 20 - Final exam due 5:00pm
| 1 | 01/08 | Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics |
| 2 | 01/10, 01/15 | Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics |
| 3 | 01/17, 01/22 | Vorticity |
| 4 | 01/24, 01/29 | Turbulence |
| 5 | 01/31, 02/05 | Waves and Perturbations |
| 6 | 02/07, 02/12 | Compressible Flow, Shocks, Supersonic Flow |
| 7 | 02/14, 02/19 | Convection |
| 8 | 02/21, 02/26 | Magnetohydrodynamics |
| 9 | 02/28, 03/05 | Plasma Physics |
| 10 | 03/07, 03/12 | Plasma Physics; Build your own receiver to listen to whistler waves. |
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