Astronomy 101

Sections AB & AD with Phil Rosenfield

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Meeting times:
AB: TTh 8:30-9:20
AD: TTH 9:30-10:20

Meeting location:
T: PAA 210
Th: PAA 216

Announcements

04-27-08

Saturn Sucks

I'll have grades posted Monday sometime. I'll also be talking about the questions for the exam at office hours on Monday in 216.

04-23-08
Here is the talk I gave today about light. Sorry it has extra crap at the end of it, I edited it from a talk my friend James wrote in San Diego.

04-21-08
Here is a link to the slides I showed last Thursday:
Solar System Formation

04-17-08

Extrasolar Planets

Check out this resource:
Exoplanet Encyclopedia
Play around with this - click on the "All Candidates detected" link
after looking around, try the "Correlation Diagrams" and plot some peramiters. If the plots are hard to read, try using the Log scaling. Very cool if you ask me.

The Moon Formation

From the same simulation shown in class on Wednesday, here is a Moon formation impact from a cool point of view:

04-15-08

Here is a really neat link worth checking out http://www.google.com/sky/. If you have Google Earth, download the google sky layer, it's a pretty nice distraction.

But wait, we're talking about the solar system this week:
Google Moon
Google Mars

I updated the grade book. See ya thurs (or in class/my office on Wed)

04-11-08
On Monday in office hours (3-4 in PAB-216) I'll be talking about the basic physics we went over today in lecture. I'll also point out how Newton's physics fails to explain extreme gravity.
Here's a cool clip about your weekend reading on the solar system.

04-08-08
I posted the first graded item on the grade book page. I used the last three digits of Stu ID to keep your grades private, if you'd rather me use random numbers, let me know.

04-04-08
A bit more introduction for the weekend, this is a little clip from a BBC interview of Richard Feynman, a nobel prize winning physicist and excellent teacher.

Want more?
Monday during office hours I'll recap on the Big Picture and answer more of your questions.