Contact Details
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University
College London,
London WC1E 6BT, UK
email:
pjs@star.ucl.ac.uk
Telephone: 020
7679 2538 (32538 internal)
Fax (if you must): 020
7679 7145.
My
web page
My office is A2 on the
top floor of the Physics
Building
Recommended Books
Main Course Book;
J Tennyson,
Astronomical Spectrsoscopy (Imperial College Press, 2005)
For reference;
JJ Brehm and WJ Mullin,
Introduction to the structure of matter
(Wiley, 1989)
Fundamentals of Molecular
Spectroscopy, 4th Edition, C.W. Banwell
and
E. McCash (McGraw-Hill, 1994)
Lectures
Mondays 2pm-4pm in A1
Tuesday 12am-1pm in A1.
Commencing Monday 02/10/2006
Guest lecturers 2006-7
November 14th, 12am:
Prof Max Pettini (Cambridge)
- `The Lyman alpha line
and the Lyman limit as cosmological probes'
November 20th, 3pm: Dr Peter Young (Space Physics, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
- `Spectroscopy
of the Sun'
December 4th, 3pm:
Dr Bob Barber (UCL)
- `The water molecule'
- Draft
Course Syllabus
-
Course Handout
- This year's exam date
TBA
- There will be two 1
hour revision classes on TBA
- Previous Exams, old
style (not set by me):
1998 ,
1999 , 2000
,
2001 ,
2002,
- Previous exams, new
style, including a Section A,
2003
Partial model answers to 2005 exam
- Problem Sets
- # 1 (out 10/10/06, returned 17/10/06) : Problem Sheet 1, Answers to problems 1
- # 2 (out 24/10/06, returned 31/10/06) : Problem Sheet 2 , Answers to problems 2
- # 3 (out 07/11/06, returned 14/11/06) : Problem Sheet 3, Answers to problems 3
- # 4 (out 21/11/06, returned 28/11/06) : Problem Sheet 4, Answers to problems 4
- # 5 (out 05/12/06, returned 12/12/06) : Problem Sheet 5, Answers to problems 5
- Summary of Sections 2,3 and 9 of course (26/4/2005) - Please be aware that this is a condensed and abbreviated version of the material, it does not replace the course notes. You still need to read the notes for the complete picture.
- Revision summary shown at 4/05/07 revision class
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