QC Spring 2008 course: Astronomy 1

Syllabus Spring 2008 in pdf and word (as of 2008/04/30)


FINAL EXAM DATE/TIME: Thursday May 22nd 8:30am - 10:30am

(The Final will be located in the same building and classroom as our normal class)
1.) Chapter 1 Lecture in pdf
2.) Chapter 2 Lecture in pdf
Animation: Exploring the Path of the Sun Over a Year (This is flash, you'll need Adobe Flash Player for your browser)
Animation: Earth in Orbit about Sun (This is an MPEG video)
Animation: Mars Retrograde Motion (Flash video)

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


2nd half of course begins here


12.) a.) Chapter 10 Lecture in pdf
b.) How to get your own 3D Sun
c.) The end of the Ulysses Probe after 17 years!

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


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