ASTR 141
Cosmology
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 115, 117. Designed for upper-division Astrophysics and Physics majors. In-depth exploration of Big Bang model for universe. Examination of what expanding universe is, how cosmologists measure its properties, and how universe has changed since Big Bang. Topics include cosmic expansion, dark matter, inflation, cosmic microwave background, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and structure formation. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2024 - This class was a lot of fun, even though I'm not super interested in cosmology! Professor Turner was a very engaging and funny lecturer and he has lots of really cool stories to tell about physicists he knows. His midterm was pretty long and a bit confusing (avg. was like a 55), but his homework was definitely doable. He assigned a final problem set instead of a final exam, which was "open-world" as he called it, meaning you could use the internet/textbooks but just had to work on it by yourself. I thought it was quite fair with that and it really saved my grade in the end. I'd definitely recommend taking this class with him, he's got a lot of very interesting insights on cosmology!
Winter 2024 - This class was a lot of fun, even though I'm not super interested in cosmology! Professor Turner was a very engaging and funny lecturer and he has lots of really cool stories to tell about physicists he knows. His midterm was pretty long and a bit confusing (avg. was like a 55), but his homework was definitely doable. He assigned a final problem set instead of a final exam, which was "open-world" as he called it, meaning you could use the internet/textbooks but just had to work on it by yourself. I thought it was quite fair with that and it really saved my grade in the end. I'd definitely recommend taking this class with him, he's got a lot of very interesting insights on cosmology!
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