ASP3012: Stars and Galaxies

- Examination (3 hours): 60%
- Assignments: 20%
- Computer laboratories: 10%
- Field-trip report: 10%

Another unit with a HUGE amount of workload, they give you 2 x 1 hour lab to finish a lab sheet that requires at least 5 - 6 hours, worst of all only the specific computers in the math building has the linux program that you need to complete the lab. Besides that the tutorial are almost useless as they ask you to proof ridiculous amount of theorem, which would be fine if they don't do any weird math logic. An example would be "hey look I know that there's a square root of 2 here, but let's just ignore it since it doesn't affect the equation much anyways" or "quick, assume density does not depend on distance so we can integrate this!", these logic just frustrates me to no end.

The amount of content in this course is quite scary, especially if you came from a physics minor with no astrophysics background, the lecture notes are terrible and the only saving grace is the extra reading material they upload. Despite all that, the field trip was rather mind blowing, I never knew so many stars were visible at night!

Dr Maria Lugaro, Dr Daniel Price and Dr Alina Donea

Yes, 2 on moodle and 1 with solution

2 Out of 5

Yes, with screen capture

None, the lecture notes + extra reading materials is all you need

- 3 x 1hours lectures
- 1 hour laboratory
- 1 hour tutorial class

Semester 2, 2013

70 D