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syllabus
Lecture Notes and Exercises
Lecture number
L1
The path for the course
The quasi-geocentric universe
daylight.htm
a360_daylight_ex.htm
de_caelo_commentary.htm
L2
Getting the Lunar month
celestial_matter_motion.htm
ptolemy_almagest.htm
Ptolemy preface
Erastothenes round earth
Zhou bi suan - flat earth
distance to the horizon
parallax exercise
L3
eccentric circles
two-circles
deferent epicycle model
helio_geo.htm
def_epicycle.htm
L4
Ptolemy's rules to locate a planet
ptolemy_model.htm
Ptolemy's model for outer planet from Crowe's book
Critique a modern Astronomy text book>
L5
Save the phenomena, chapter 5
Forensic reconstruction of Copernicus
Copernicus's funeral mass, May22, 2010
Copernicus model Rp/Re for inner planet
Copernicus's model for Rp/Re for an outer planet
epicyclets in Copernicus
Retrograde motion
Copernicus preface "heresy?"
Tycho Brahe notes
Praetorius Dances
kepler.htm
Kepler notes from O.Gingrich
keplers_laws.htm
Brahe, Copernicus, Kepler planetary models
L6
chapter 9 notes
galileo.htm
L7
Azout, comet 1665
natural law
newton.pdf
prime_age_newton.htm
newton_philosophy.htm
L8
cavendish.htm
tidal_force.htm
tidal_forcetable.htm
L9, midterm, see instructor or - see faculty page for schedule if K. Aniol is instructor
L10
Basic telescope physics
brightness magnification of telescopes
angular magnification of telescopes
diffraction limit
Resolving power of human eye
Hubble's methodology
Hubble's third claim for the scientific method
L11
Olber's Paradox
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Stellar parallax
L12
Charles Messier's catalog of nebulae
Island Universe Theory
Some of William Herschel's discoveries
William Herschel biography
Orion Nebula photos
Rev.John Michell and double stars
Pleiades star cluster
Earl of Rosse paper on spiral nebulae
M51 and dynamics
Using the Doppler shift
Can we know what the stars are made of?
L13
Fraunhofer and spectroscopy
Bunsen and spectroscopy
Kirchoff and spectroscopy
Huggins and the chemical composition of the stars
L14
Doppler and stellar velocities
Mass of the galaxy
Massive Black Hole in Center of Galaxy
Gravitational Waves - Oscillations of Space-Time
L15
Simon Newcomb and the Astronomical Unit
Simon Newcomb's tomb in Arlington Cemetery
classification of stellar spectra
L16
Black body radiation
L17
Cepheid variables and the distance scale
Distances in astronomy
L18
Time dependent scale factor
The expanding universe, Hubble's discovery
Hubble's 1929 paper on the expanding universe
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Project
Excellent synopsis of cosmology from WMAP
WMAP's history of the Universe
Planck CMWB explorer
L19
Nucleosynthesis of the Elements
dark matter, galaxy formation, inflation
dark energy
Geometry of the Universe from WMAP
L20
Is laboratory based science enough to understand the Universe?
highlights of the course
Outside Activities
Field exercise to determine the radius of the Earth
Determining the distance to the moon