Problem Sets

Each week's homework will be due on Friday by 5:30 pm (PT). Collaboration is permitted/encouraged, but do please write up your own solutions so that individual work can be recognized.

Remember, problem solving involves both understanding and communicating your understanding. Neither equations alone nor words alone will suffice in most cases. Please state your starting point and any assumptions made along the way when working your solutions. Also, please use sensible units in your final answers. For example, I don't care to know the distance to the nearest star in Angstroms, though these are very popular astronomer's units for optical wavelengths.

Relevant Lectures & Reading Material	Assigned Problems (either .ps/.pdf or in Carroll & Ostlie)	TA
Week 1	.ps or .pdf -- due 10 Oct
Week 2	.ps or .pdf (this set got a little long, so do the last problem for extra credit if you want to invest the effort; i.e. problem #8 is not required) -- due 17 Oct
Week 3	no problem set exam instead -- due back 24 Oct
Week 4	.ps or .pdf -- due 31 Oct
Week 5	.ps or .pdf -- due 7 Nov
Week 6	.ps or .pdf -- due 14 Nov
Week 7	no problem set exam instead
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10