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CLASSES and SEMINARS Before Spring 2019
With my official retirement 1 July 2019, I do not teach classes anymore.
We will keep the textbooks up-to-date, however.
Classes
Astro/EPS 12: The Planets. A tour and overview of the Solar System, including knowledge gained about the planets in the past 10-20 years through the space program and Earth-based observations. Intended for non-science majors. This course is taught jointly between the department of Astronomy and the department of Earth and Planetary Science. Objectives of the Course: To describe the nature of our Solar System, past, present and future, its age, and the processes by which it formed and evolved. To introduce basic concepts of the physical sciences, including force, energy, matter, and time, as well as how to handle very large and small numbers. To illustrate the logic used in reaching scientific conclusions.
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Astro/EPS C162: Planetary Sciences (or
Solar System Astrophysics). An upper-level
course for undergraduate science majors offers a selective tour of the solar system
from an astrophysicist's perspective.
Covers a carefully chosen set of topics in planetary interiors,
surfaces, atmospheres, and gravitational dynamics that demonstrate
fundamental physical processes.
Possible topics: energy transport mechanisms in atmospheres,
gravity fields and inference of interior structures,
cratering laws, tides, small body dynamics and interaction
of matter with radiation, magnetic and ionospheric phenomena in giant planet
environs, and solar system formation.
Fall 2015, 2016. Instructor: Imke de Pater Textbook: Fundamental Planetary
Science: Physics, Chemsitry and Habitability, by Jack
J. Lissauer and Imke de Pater (Cambridge Univ.
Press; 2013). Astro/EPS 249: Planetary Sciences (or
Solar System Astrophysics). A graduate
level course, which concentrates on the physics, chemistry and dynamics
in our own Solar System. Typical topics include some of the following
(which topics are covered varies from year to year): Planetary atmospheres,
surface geology, interior structure of planets, planetary magnetospheres and
the interaction between planets and the solar wind, comets, including the Oort
cloud and Kuiper belt, asteroids, the formation of our Solar System, and extrasolar
planets. Textbook: Planetary
Sciences, by Imke de Pater and Jack J. Lissauer (Cambridge Univ.
Press; 2010).>>Table
of Contents<< See also CIPS seminar series and workshops. http://cips.berkeley.edu/events/ Back
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