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Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

3720

ASTR 3720 Planetary Atmospheres  Spring 2013

Instructor: Fran Bagenal  - bagenal@colorado.edu

THIS WEEK: Grades posted below. You can pick up your posters and graded reports and homeworks from the printer room 2 doors down from my office – Duane D113. All material discarded if not picked up before Memorial Day.  HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

Syllabus   April UPDATED calendar.

Classes: Tues, Thurs 2-3.15pm in G131

Study Sessions: Mondays 3-5.30pm in Duane G2B47,  Wednesdays 5.30-7pm in Duane E126 – the Mondays and Wednesdays before HW is due – see Calendars above.

EXAMS – There is NO FINAL EXAM!

  1. Thurs Feb 7 Review1  Exam 1 Solutions MT1- blank exam
  2. Tues Mar 12 Review2-UPDATED   MT2-solutions MT2blank
  3. Tues Apr 16  Review3   MT3solutions
  4. Final Projects Poster presentations Apr 25. Paper due May 2nd.

CLASSES – note: 2 slides per page in .pdf files of class notes. Tell me if by making the files small they have become unreadable.

  1. Introduction   +Notes
  2. Gas Laws  +Notes
  3. Baratropic Law
  4. Layers
  5. Light 1
  6. Light 2
  7. Equilibrium Temperature
  8. Exam 1
  9. Layer Model & Energy Budget
  10. Radiative Transfer
  11. Beer’s Law
  12. Water-1
  13. Water-2
  14. Dynamics-1
  15. Dynamics-2
  16. Titan
  17. Chemistry1
  18. Chemistry2
  19. Climate - updated!
  20. Climate Evolution 1
  21. Venus
  22. Evolution 2
  23. Mars
  24. Climate Change 1
  25. Climate Change 2
  26. Io’s Atmosphere
  27. Pluto-1
  28. Pluto-2
  1. HW1  HW1answers
  2. HW2  HW2ans – updated
  3. HW3  HW3ans
  4. HW4  HW4.txt   HW4ans
  5. HW5  HW5.txt  change this second file to .xlsx to run as a excel file  HW5ans
  6. HW6  Due April 30th

GRADES – you will find on your Exam 1 paper a number written above your name. This is a random number. You will find your grades corresponding to this number in the following file(s). Email if there’s an issue.

  1. Feb 17th (HW1, HW2, Exam 1) - GradesFeb17
  2. Feb 26th + HW3 - GradesFeb26
  3. Mar 19 – Grades3 Exam 2 + HW4 + Score to date =(Ave HW *0.25+ ave Exam *0.40)/0.65   w/drops lowest HW, Exam
  4. Apr 28 –  Grades4 with Exam 3 (HW6, Projects to come)
  5. May 9 –   Final Grades  Grade Distribution  Lowest HW dropped, Lowest Exam dropped. Exams = 40%, HW=25%, Project = 35%

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