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Current / Most Recent Semester: |
Summer 2013/14 |
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Instructor(s): |
Chen Tian Wen |
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Teaching Pattern: |
duration of course: about 14 weeks
lecture hour(s) / tutorial hour(s) per week: 3 / TBA
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No. of Credit(s): |
3 |
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Content: |
Introduction to our Universe; observation in
astronomy; origin of modern astronomy
Newton's law of motions; gravity; light, atoms
and telescope
The
Sun; stellar formation and evolution; white
dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes
The
Milky way Galaxy; Normal galaxies, active
galaxies and supermassive black holes
Foundation of modern cosmology; dark matter,
dark energy and the fate of the Universe; the
beginning of time
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Remarks: |
Exclusion(s): Level 3 or above in HKDSE 1/2x Physics OR HKDSE 1x
Physics, a passing grade in AL/AS Physics, PHYS 1001, PHYS 1002,
PHYS 4054
Common Core Course
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