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Week1 (Jan. 7)  

MASTERING ASTRONOMY COURSE ID:   PHSC1012SPRING08

zoom.swf  or  Powers of 10
side menu (distance to sun--for now)
size_of_the_milky_way.swf
NASA Solar System Link

North pole view

Earth Rotation

Foucoult Pendulum

 Surface Area worksheet

Notes 1----OLD COPY OF NOTES.  SEE CURRENT MASTERING ASTRONOMY COURSE ID

 Week2  (Jan. 14) seasons1.swf
Solar System Tour.swf
ExploreCelestSphere.swf
ReasonForSeasons.swf
CauseOfSeasons.swf
SunPathZodiac.swf
sidereal.swf
CauseOfLunarPhases.swf
 phases of moon.swf
 lunar cycle.swf

 _CauseOfEclipsesAnim.swf

 _MoonRiseSetVsPhase.swf


CauseOfEclipsesAnim.swf
EclipticPlaneAnim.swf
moonOrbitTiltVsEcliptic.swf
PhasesOfMoon.swf
 precession2-several north stars.swf
 precession-north star.swf

Mars Retrograde 2004.swf

 10MarsRetrogradeMotion.swf

North and Earth Speed

 

Moon Phases worksheet

 

 notes 2.pdf

 

Week 3 (Jan. 21) Solar System Info
 

 Orbit ellipses.swf
_04Kepler2AreaTInt.swf
05MoonCraters.swf
 06PhasesOfVenus.swf
_EccenAndSemimajAxis.swf

 _WhatIsACircle.swf

Geocentric/Helio

Mercury Orbit

Kepler Physlet

 

lightTimes to planets
Week 4 ( Jan. 28) _02CannonballOrbitFire.swf
 

04_01ApparentWeight.swf

04_InverseSquareG.swf (graph correct, numbers wrong)

04_TotalEnergyBallInAir.swf

04_GAccel.swf

/04_MassVsInitialV.swf

/04_MassEnergyConversion.swf

04_PlanetMassRWeight.swf

Elevator Problem-physlet

Free Fall-physlet

 

exam 1solutions.pdf

 
 Notes 3.pdf
Kepler and Gravitation

Week 5(Feb. 4)  PHET Wave_on_a_String
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 spectra.swf

 _IntroToSpectroscopy.swf

Atom Emission.swf

Blackbody emission.swf

 starMotionDopplerEffec.swf

 /Doppler/Doppler.html

 

Notes 4

 
Week 6  (Feb. 11) Spectral Lines

Blackbody Radiation Spectra

 ThermalRadiation.swf

WiensLaw.swf

 AtomExcitationPhoto.swf

Side note---nice Elevator Newtons 2nd law in my phys111 link, Sept. 19, page 6,7---for test.   Don't forget to know 9.8

Try tripling the temp of an object at say 40 Celsius, give answer in both Kelvin, and celsius

 

Week7(Feb. 18)   formationOfSolarSystem.mov

 StellarMotionPlanets.swf

 SolarWind.swf

 OscillAbsorpLine.swf

 _NebularCaptureJovians.swf

 collapseOfSolarNebula.swf

 PlanetaryTransits.swf

 AngularSepVsDistance.swf

 

notes 5
Week 8(Feb. 25)    
 week 9 ( March 3--Spring Pause)  

  CauseofAuroraBor.swf

 CauseOfGreenhouseEff.swf

 

 TectsConvectMantle.swf

 _ComparPlanetology.swf

 _EvolOfPlanetSurface.swf

 GreenhouseEffect.swf

 _HistoryOfCratering.swf

 HistVolcanismTectonics.swf

 TectonicsAndHeatTransfer.swf

 physlet tranverse longitudinal

 continentalDriftOfAfrica.mpg

 Earth_at_night_NASA.mpg

_tectonicPlateBoundaries.mpg

Exam 2 sp08.pdf

 

Exam 3 sp08 solutions.pdf

exam 4 sol sp08.p

 

 

exam 5 chs 11 and 13 sp08.pdf

Week 10 (March 10)   notes6
Week 11 (March 17)   Mercury Orbit
Week 12 (March 24)    Structure of the sun
Energy & Sun

The Stars
 

 StructSun.swf

 SunGEquilibrium.swf

 _InternalPSun.swf

InternalTSun.swf

 StellarLifeCalculator.swf ViewSunWavelengths.swf

Notes 7.pdf

notes 8.pdf

 Week 13 (March 31)
Sample Test problems
 ParallaxNearbyStar.swf

 IntroToParallax.swf

StellarPops.swf

 MeasureParallaxAngle.swf

DopplerShiftBinarySys.swf

 ParallaxAngleVsDist.swf

GenerateHRDiagr.swf

 StellarMassHRDiagr.swf

 

 

 

 
Week 14  (April 7)
Spring Break
 TimeNearBH.swf

 FormXRayBin.swf

 _DeathSeqHighMStar.swf

 DetermineEventHoriz.swf

 _DeathSeqSun.swf

 StagesLowMDeathSeq.swf

 

 

 notes 9 Ch 11.pdf

notes 10 Ch 13.pdf

Week 15  (April 14)   notes 11 misc.pdf
Week 16 (April 21)

FINAL EXAM COMMENTS

   
These animations may be moved around to the appropriate "weekly content area above".

 

 

 

     http://www.nineplanets.org/overview.html
Latitude
 
 
Earth interior
P and S waves
More P and S
More P and S again

  Insolation
 

Atmosphere
Atmosphere II
Water cycle

Mercury Orbit
Black Hole eats star
Chandra Galaxies
Pulsar
Galaxy Info (scroll)
Galaxy Questions
Hubble's Law

  Comet Collision
Moon Phase
Moon Phase II
Eclipses
Eclipse II
Sidereal vs. Synodic (Solar)
Optics Telescope
Optics Bench

 

Kepler Physlet
Geocentric/Helio

Parallax Demo
Parsec +
Parsec animation
HR diagrams
HR star evolution
Hyperphysics-astronomy

NASA Solar System Link
Retrograde motion1
Retrograde 2
Retrograde 3

 

THESE WORKSHEETS MAY BE USED LATER IN THE COURSE.

Densities of Planets

lightTimes to planets

Moon Phases and EclipsesTelescopes and Spectra

Water and Energy

Worksheet Black Holes

Earth and Sun

Hubble

Kepler and Gravitation

North and Earth Speed

Planet speeds/Lat/Long

Sun Energy

Surface Area