Astrophysics 616 Homework Assignments

We will cover selected material from Chapters 15-18, 29-35, and 21 in the lecture notes during the semester. You are expected to turn in the following homework assignments for those chapters. These will not be graded but will be be checked for completion (this counts 20% of your grade). You may be docked 5% per day for each day that an assignment is late (this is meant to keep you from getting behind; if there are reasons why you need to be late with an assignment, check with me and we can probably reach an arrangement).

Homework will generally be due one week from the day the corresponding chapter is finished in lecture (except very near the end of the semester, where the due date will be given explicitly in class for the last assignments). If solutions are provided, you are expected to do the homework before consulting the solutions. You may work together on the homework assignments as long as each person is doing all the problems (i.e., not permissible for a team to divide up the work and then copy from each other). It is NOT allowed to work together on takehome tests, however. You are encouraged to use tools like Maple, Mathematica, MatLab, or programming languages in solving problems and graphing solutions.

The selected exercises in the following table are required. You are, of course, encouraged to do as many exercises as possible beyond the required minimal assignment.