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Major/Minor | ALL |
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Offer in 2024 - 2025 | Y N |
Course Code | PHYS3660 |
Date | 2024/11/12 17:03 |
Enquiry for Course Details |
PHYS3660 Astronomy laboratory (6 credits) | Academic Year | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
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Offering Department | Physics | Quota | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
Course Co-ordinator | Prof S C Y Ng, Physics < ncy@astro.physics.hku.hk > | ||||||||||||||||||
Teachers Involved | (Prof S C Y Ng,Physics) | ||||||||||||||||||
Course Objectives | This course trains students with basics of extracting scientific information with astronomical observations. The focus is on practical experience in operating telescopes, data acquisition and reduction, and interpretation of the results rather than verification of known astronomical theories. It is one of the core electives for astronomy minor and an elective course for the astrophysics and experimental physics themes. Upon completion, interested students may apply the techniques learnt here in observational astronomy related capstone courses. | ||||||||||||||||||
Course Contents & Topics | This course will cover the following topics: basics working principles of optical telescopes and CCDs; setting up and hands-on operations of small optical telescopes; error analysis and basic statistics related to the astronomy laboratories; introduction to the magnitude system and celestial coordinates, the color magnitude diagram; observations and data reduction techniques in multi-wavelength astronomy; introduction to data analysis software packages. | ||||||||||||||||||
Course Learning Outcomes |
On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
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Pre-requisites (and Co-requisites and Impermissible combinations) |
Pass in (PHYS2265 or PHYS2650); and Pass in PHYS3650, or already enrolled in this course. | ||||||||||||||||||
Course Status with Related Major/Minor /Professional Core |
2024 Major in Physics
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Disciplinary Elective
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2024 Major in Physics (Intensive) ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2024 Minor in Astronomy ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2024 Minor in Physics ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2023 Major in Physics ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2023 Major in Physics (Intensive) ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2023 Minor in Astronomy ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2023 Minor in Physics ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2022 Major in Physics ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2022 Major in Physics (Intensive) ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2022 Minor in Astronomy ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2022 Minor in Physics ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2021 Major in Physics ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2021 Major in Physics (Intensive) ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2021 Minor in Astronomy ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2021 Minor in Physics ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2020 Major in Physics ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2020 Major in Physics (Intensive) ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2020 Minor in Astronomy ( Disciplinary Elective ) 2020 Minor in Physics ( Disciplinary Elective ) |
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Course to PLO Mapping |
2024 Major in Physics < PLO 1,2,3,4 >
2024 Major in Physics (Intensive) < PLO 1,2,3,4 > 2023 Major in Physics < PLO 1,2,3,4 > 2023 Major in Physics (Intensive) < PLO 1,2,3,4 > 2022 Major in Physics < PLO 1,2,3,4 > 2022 Major in Physics (Intensive) < PLO 1,2,3,4 > 2021 Major in Physics < PLO 1,2,3,4 > 2021 Major in Physics (Intensive) < PLO 1,2,3,4 > 2020 Major in Physics < PLO 1,2,3,4 > 2020 Major in Physics (Intensive) < PLO 1,2,3,4 > |
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Offer in 2024 - 2025 | Y 1st sem | Examination | No Exam | ||||||||||||||||
Offer in 2025 - 2026 | Y | ||||||||||||||||||
Course Grade | A+ to F | ||||||||||||||||||
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Communication-intensive Course | Y | ||||||||||||||||||
Course Type | Lecture with laboratory component course | ||||||||||||||||||
Course Teaching & Learning Activities |
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Assessment Methods and Weighting |
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Required/recommended reading and online materials |
Lecture notes provided by Course Coordinator L. M. Golden, Laboratory Experiments in Physics for Modern Astronomy, Springer-Verlag (2013) R. Buchheim, The Sky is Your Laboratory: Advanced Astronomy Projects for Amateurs, Praxis (2007) |
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Course Website | http://moodle.hku.hk | ||||||||||||||||||
Additional Course Information | Students interested in taking this course are required to email the course instructor before end of July. |
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