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Signal Processing - Signal & noise, stochastic processes, convolution, impulse symbol,
Fourier series and transforms, sampling, signal energy, linear systems, analog filtering.
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Imaging: Methods & Systems - Radiometry, photometry, radiation detectors and associated noises,
image formation, Fourier optics, optical instruments, aperture synthesis, active optics, space-based and
ground-based astronomical instruments.
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Control Theory - Linear filters, transfer function, Laplace transform,
first and second-order models, Bode, Nyquist, and Black plots, Nichols chart,
stability, accuracy, time-response, and control of closed-loop systems,
disturbance rejection and tracking, PID controller.
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Formerly |
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Atomic Physics (graduate lab.) - Magnetic resonance (Brossel effect). Dye laser.
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2007-2009
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Classical Mechanics (undergraduate course) - Kinematics, rotating frames,
dynamics in Galilean and non-Galilean frames of reference, energy, angular momentum.
Gravitationally-bound orbital motion, collisions, rigid body dynamics, centers of mass,
moments of inertia.
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2007-2009
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Extrasolar planets (graduate course) - 1. Historic, statistics of known planets -
2. Indirect detection methods: radial velocimetry, transit photometry, astrometry, gravitational micro-lensing -
3. Direct detection methods: coronagraphy and interferometry - 4. Formation, migration, interiors and atmospheres,
new classes of planetes. - 5. Astrobiology, Darwin and Terrestrial Planet Finder missions.
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2007-2010
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History of Science (undergraduate course) - Representations of the universe from Ptolemy to Copernicus.
Relativistic theories from Galileo to Einstein.
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2008-2009
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Radioastronomy (graduate lab.) - Observations of the Sky, the Sun, and TV satellites with an 80-cm parabolic
antenna at 10 GHz. System's calibration, measurements of the system's field of view and noise properties.
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2007-2009
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