The following is a chronology of some of the semester's reading assignments:
To begin:
Read the Course
Syllabus, Announcements, and Lab Info, and know what is expected of you.
In the Course/Lab
Manual, read, study and know everything in Ex. 1.0
FOR LECTURE:
For the first week:
Read
Chapter 1, parts A, B, C & D of my online textbook, which
is found on this website.
For the ensuing weeks, be guided by what is being discussed in lecture.
Unless otherwise
noted, the following readings are in the textbook "Pathways to Astronomy"
by Scneider and
Arny:
Our
Planetary Neighborhood: pg. 1 - 12, Unit 1.
Beyond
the Solar System: pg 9 - 16, Unit 1.
Numbers:
pg. 18 - 22, Unit 3.
Celestial
Sphere and Coordinates: All of Unit 5.
Study
the star charts in back of textbook.
Unit
6.2 on the ecliptic and Zodiac.
Precession:
Unit 6.6, pg. 51
Read my other online Chapters in advance as they are covered in class.
In S&A:
Units
77.1, 77.3, 77.4: local group and clustering
Fundamental
Forces: Unit 4.3, pg. 30-31
Newton's Laws of Motion:
Units 14.1 - 14.3, 15.2, 15.3
Law of Gravity: Unit
16.1, 16.2
Orbits: 18.1
Solar System:
Elongation:
Study diagrams on page 91 in S&A.
Ex.
15.0 and study how elongations are measured on the chart on p. 118 in Ex.
16.0
in
the RJP Course Manual.
Inventory of Solar System:
Unit 34, pg 243 - 250
Heliocentric Solar System,
Copernicus: Unit 11
Kepler, and Galilei:
Unit 12.
Units 6.1 thru 6.5 on the
annual motion of the Sun, seasons, ecliptic.
Ex.
7.0 in the RJP Course Manual regarding the ecliptic, zodiac, the equinoxes,
the solstices,
the
changing diurnal circles of the Sun, and seasons.
Read all of the above for Test 1.
Test 2 material:
Celestial Sphere:
Ex. 5.0 in RJP on the horizon system of coordinates.
Ex
5.2 in RJP: Measuring altitude and azimuth.
Ex. 6.0 , section II, in
RJP on diurnal circles.
Ex.
7.0 in RJP regarding the ecliptic, zodiac, and seasons.
Ex.
13.0 in RJP regarding lunar motion elongations, & phases.
The
online document "Lunar Motions and Eclipses" on this web site.
Solar System:
Unit 34 The Structure
of the Solar System
Unit 35 .1 on radioactive
dating.
Unit 39, The Moon Unit
Unit 40, Mercury
Unit 41, Venus
Unit 44, Mars
Unit 45, Jupiter and Saturn
Unit 46, Uranus and Neptune
Unit 47, Satellites and
Ring Systems
Unit 47.4 is on tidal
forces and Roche Limit
Unit 48, The Icy planets
or worlds
Unit 8 on Lunar Cycles (Phases
& Eclipses) Also read the related document on my web site
titled "Lunar Motions and Eclipses."
Unit 19, Tides.
Unit 39.4 Tidal braking.
Also read the document on my web site titled "Wait A Second."
Unit
43, The asteroids or minor planets
Unit 44, Comparative planetology
Unit 50, Meteoroids, meteors,
and meteorites
Unit 49, Comets
Unit 35, Origin of the Solar
System
Read all of the above for test #2 on a date to be announced.
Test 3 material:
Ex.
6.0 on diurnal circles.
Ex.
14.0 in RJP on eclipses
Stars:
Unit 54, Parallax and Distance
Ex. 17.0, 17.1, 18.0, 18.7
in the Course Manual by RJP
Units 21.1, 21.2,
and 22, Nature of Light and the electromagnetic spectrum.
Unit 55: Stellar Brightness
and Luminosity
Unit 23: Thermal or
Black Body radiation, Planck's Law, Wien's Law & Stefan-Boltzmann
Law.
Unit 24.2, 24.4: Production
of spectral lines and Stellar Spectra
Unit 56: Stellar Spectral
Classes:
Unit 59, H-R Diagram and
Luminosity Classes
Unit 25: Doppler Effect
and Ex. 20.0, sec. I, in Course Manual
Unit 58-2 Stellar Diams.
Unit 52.1-2 H fusion
Units 60 & 61
on Stellar Evolution
Units 62 & 63
Units 65 - 69 on Stellar
Evolution
Unit 70.2 Cluster Ages
Unit 64.2, 64.3:
Period Luminosity Law
Study Virtual Astron., Ex
24 on the Period-Luminosity Law. This is available online in the
astronomy computer
lab only.
Galaxies and Cosmology:
Unit 71: The Milky
Way Galaxy; 71.3: Shapley" model.
Unit 72.1 : Stellar
Populations
Unit 72.3: Mergers
Unit 73: The interstellar
medium. 73.3 is on 21 cm radiation from H.
Unit 76 Types of galaxies
Unit 75.2: Distances
of Galaxies
Unit 75.3 Red Doppler
shifts, & Hubble's Law.
Unit 77, Distribution of
Galaxies in Universe
Unit 80, Cosmology and Hubble's
Law:
End of Material for Test 3, on 11-26.
The following,
plus all of the above, will be on the final exam:
Unit 78.2 Quasars
Unit 79.1, 79.2, 79.4,
Dark Matter in galaxies
Unit 81 Beginning of the
universe
Unit 80.2: Cosmological
Principle
UNit 83: The Big Bang
Theory & Dark Energy
FOR LAB (See LABINFO for schedule)
Read Ex. 2.0 ahead of time.
Read Ex. 15.0 for the third lab session
Read Ex. 5.0 and 5.2
Read Ex. 7.0
Read Ex. 13.0
Read Ex. 6.0
Read Ex. 14.0
Read Ex. 17.0 & 17.1
Read Ex. 18.0
Read Ex. 18.7
Read Ex. 18.5
Read Ex. 20.0 on Doppler Principle
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