3.) Chapter 3 Lecture 1 in pdf
Chapter 3 Lecture 2 in pdf
Chapter 3 Ptolemaic Model Animations:
a.) Ptolemaic System Simulator (Adobe Flash)
b.) Ptolemy's Cosmology (Java)
c.) Ptolemy's Epicycle (Java)
4.) 2008/02/07 Quiz 1 answers in pdf format
5.) Chapter 4 Lecture in pdf
6.) Chapter 5 Lecture in pdf
7.) Chapter 6 Lecture in pdf
a.) Check out this
Movie on the Eagle Nebula where stars are born.
b.) A video of the creation of the Earth's moon via a planetesimal collision
from the American Museum of Natural History's
Cosmic Collisions show
8.) Chapter 7 Lecture in pdf
9.) Chapter 8 Lecture in pdf
Also check out
this video of The New Horizons's probe filming the Tvashtar Volcano on
Io as it passed through the Jupiter system.
9.) Chapter 9 Lecture in pdf
10.) 2008/03/06 Quiz 2 answers in pdf format
11.) Mid-Term Review
13.) Chapter 11 Lecture in pdf
Chapter 11 animations of
Doppler Shift , Parallax ,
and Parallax Angle
14.) For light reading try this recent article from Physics Today on our Moon: physicstoday-moon.pdf
15.) Chapter 12 Lecture in pdf
Chapter 12 animations of
The Multiwavelength Molecular Cloud ,
Cloud Collapse ,
Low Mass Stellar Death ,
High Mass Stellar Death , and
Multiwavelength views of The Crab Nebula
.
16.) Chapter 13 Lecture in pdf
Chapter 13 animations of
SpaceTime Rubber Sheet Demo ,
Orbits of stars around the Milky Way's SuperMassive
Black Hole (Windows avi format), and
Movie of Crab Nebula from Chandra
X-ray telescope on left and Hubble Space Telescope on right (Quicktime
mov format).
17.) Chapter 14 Lecture in pdf
Chapter 14 animations of The
Milkway Galaxy , The rotation
curve of the Milky Way , Multiwavelength
views of the Milkway , The Orion nebula
fly-by, and A view of the Sagittarius
dwarf galaxy surrounding the Milky Way
18.) Quiz 3 answers in pdf
19.) A recent NYTimes article on how our Earth will be engulfed by our Sun in another 7.59 Billion years.
20.) Chapter 15 Lecture part I in pdf
Chapter 15 Lecture part II in pdf
A simulation of a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda
galaxy in mpeg format .
A close up of the core from the previous simulation in
mpeg format .
Multiwavelength views of a Starburst galaxy in
flash format
21.) Quiz 4 answers in pdf
22.) Chapter 16 Lecture in pdf
a.) Picture of lenses in a cluster of galaxies
in flash format
b.) Lensing animation in a cluster of galaxies
in flash format
c.) The formation of structure in the Universe from initial conditions
in flash format
d.) John Dubinski simulation of the formation of structure in The Universe
in quicktime format (311MB in size!)
23.) Chapter 17 Lecture in pdf
a.) Animation of the Nuclei Era in flash format
24.) Chapter 18 Lecture in pdf
25.) April 2008 article from Physics Today on the Cosmic Microwave Background
and what recent discoveries tell us in pdf
26.) Final review in pdf