Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy
[Many of these tutorials were adapted from Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy, Adams, Prather, Slater, CAPER Team (Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 2005)]
- Fundamentals and Light
- Solar vs Sideral Time
- Gravity Tutorial
- Blackbody Radiation
- Spectrum Analysis
- Stefan Boltzmann Law
Stars and Stellar Evolution
- Apparent and Absolute Magnitudes
- H R Diagram
- Spectroscopic Parallax
- Star Formation Lifetimes
- Color Index
- CMDs -- Ages and Distances
Milky Way and Galaxies and Beyond
- Distances in the Milky Way
- Looking at Distant Objects
- Looking at Distant Galaxies
- Pre-Hubble Law Lab: Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning