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Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics

by Charles Bailyn

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This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular attention is paid to current projects that promise to improve our understanding significantly over the next few years. The course explores not just what is known, but what is currently not known, and how astronomers are going about trying to find out.

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I have to start this saying that I am Math-phobic, yet Prof. Bailyn makes some VERY complicated math approachable... but it IS astrophysics so it's still complicated... It helps immensely that I am not worried about taking the midterm or the final. He is a good lecturer and is animated and funny. Certainly entertaining enough to enjoy just listening to him. However, if you are trying to grasp the math at all, I suggest using the video version of this, although, even with the video you occasionally miss something (the camera is firmly focused on the overhead projector and you hear him say 'that means it goes this way' but you never see which way that is. The subject matter is dead-on current. It is talking about the planets and the problems they present up to when this class was held. Fascinating stuff! I would heartily suggest following this iTunesU selection.

RedheadedCyclone · Feb 2011

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