PHYSICS 3331
Introduction to Astrophysics
This course covers the physics needed for higher level astrophysics courses, and is a requirement for those courses. Furthermore, it gives a first introduction to several topics in modern astrophysics, including stars (stellar structure and evolution), compact objects (neutron stars and black holes), galaxies (galactic structure), and cosmology. The course should be taken by everybody interested in astrophysics. Prerequisite: Physics 191 and 192 or Physics 193 and 194 or Physics 197 and 198 or permission of instructor.
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Buckley is a pretty awesome professor, he really knows his stuff. The class itself is a bit tricky for a 300-level course. If you can bear with the math, you'll learn about some pretty interesting and relevant topics. Overall the course was graded fairly. Buckley also did a good job of keeping the class engaged by making jokes.
12/22/2024
Truly an amazing dude - funny, brilliant, and really creates a community within the classroom the really makes you wanna learn. Unfortunately, he makes it a point to include very challenging math in assignment (grad level stuff). HW becomes incredibly hard very quickly, and tests are consistently tough, including the final.
6/15/2017
The homework and exams aren't really related to astrophysics, it's mostly just math and quantum. Good class if that's what you're looking for, but don't take it if you want to learn about space.
12/20/2016
cool guy, interesting stuff- most of the time, very hard homework
4/26/2005