Volume 1 Review Questions and Problem Sets
Volume 1 chronicles six decades of quasar spectroscopy. The book details the nature of the Ly-alpha forest, Lyman limit systems, damped Ly-alpha absorbers, deuterium (D/H), 21-cm absorbers, HI and HeII Reionization, the WHIM, and the multiple ionization phases of metal line absorbers. Galaxies and their connections to these absorbers are treated in depth, as are the taxonomy and classes of AGN/quasar spectra and their associated absorption lines.
A Note to Students/Learners: The review questions are qualitative in nature. They are designed to be "high level" to direct your focus on the key concepts in the chapters and to challenge you to sussinctly explain these concepts in your own words. The problem sets range from short derivations and calculations to practical data analysis challenges.
A Note to Instructors: The Review Questions serve as a good first-order set of learning objectives. These questions may facilitate building traditional instructor lectures, developing flipped classroom plans, and/or organizing in-class think-share-pair activities.
Problem Sets by Chapter
PART 1. BEAKTHROUGH ASTROPHYSICS
Chapter 1 A New Science
Chapter 2 Discovery of High Redhsift Probes
Chapter 3 Journey to our Modern World View
PART 2. INTERVENING ABSORBERS
Chapter 4 Neutral Hydrogen Absorbers
Chapter 5 Dueterium and the Big Bang
Chapter 6 21-cm Absorption
Chapter 7 Helium Absorption
Chapter 8 Low Ionization Metal-line Absorbers
Chapter 9 Intermediate Ionization Metal-line Absorbers
Chapter 10 Thw Warm/Hot Diffuse Universe
Chapter 11 High Ionization Metal-line Absorbers
PART 3. GALAXIES AND THEIR GAS
Chapter 12 Baryons and Dark Matter Halos
Chapter 13 Studying the Circumgalactic Medium
Chapter 14 The Nature of the Circumgalactic Medium
Chapter 15 Friends of Friends and Their Gas
Chapter 16 Groups and Clusters
Chapter 17 Starbursts, AGN, and Quasars
Chapter 18 Active Black Holes and Eddington
Chapter 19 BALs, NALs, and QPQs
