Astronomy 123 On-line Access

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Important Announcements

• First Mid Term Date has Changed
• Classes on Friday
• May 6 and 8 Lectures to be given by Professor Imamura
• Second Midterm Date is Changed to May 29
• Second Homework Assignment is Available under the homework section below
• The Final Exam will be Distributed in Class on June 7 and will be due at 1 PM June 13

Course Materials

Administrative stuff:

• Course Overview
• Course Outline
• About Printing These Pages
• Helpful Computer Hints for Survival in this Class
• Paperless Class and Student Help
• The TA for this Class

Reading and Posting to the News Group

• Post To the Newsgroup for This Class
• Read The Newsgroup for This Class

Some Internet Resources for This Class

• Local Astronomy Stuff
• The Current Phase of the Moon
• Excellent Overview of the Early Universe
• Jeff Willick's Cosmology from Stanford
• Some good Internet tutorials on Cosmology
• A good primer on different Galaxy types
• Some Essays by Joe Silk - good information
• The Periodic Table of Elements
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Short Course on Global Change
• The Biology Hypertext book

Tests and Homework:

• Get Your Grade Here
• First Midterm Results
• First Midterm Answers
• Second Midterm Results
• Second Midterm Answers
• First Homework Assignment
• Second Homework Assignment
• Study Guide for the First Midterm
• Study Guide for the Second Midterm
• Results of the Final

Student Designed Pages:

• Frodo's First Homework Response
• The Ice Cream Guy's First Homework
• Second Homework --> the Beatles White Album???




Lectures:

WEEK 1: ANCIENT COSMOLOGY
• Lecture #1 (M Apr 1) --> What is this Class About Anyway?
  • Page 1a: ------> Small Comment
• Lecture #2 (W Apr 3) --> Historical Cosmologies and Cultural Bias
  • Page 2a: ------> The Magic/Mythic Universe
• Lecture #3 (F Apr 5)--> The Geometric Universe
  • Page 3a: ------> Towards Geocentricism
WEEK 2: MOVING TOWARDS MODERN COSMOLOGY

• Lecture #4 (M Apr 8) --> Moving toward Curved Spacetime
• Lecture #5 (W Apr 10) --> Newton and Einstein
• Lecture #6 (F Apr 12) --> The Expanding Universe
WEEK 3: THE THERMAL HISTORY OF THE VERY EARLY UNIVERSE

• Lecture #7 (M Apr 15) --> The Microwave Background
  • Page 7a: ------> Quantum Fluctuations shortly after the beginning
• Lecutre #8 (W Apr 17) --> The Very Early Universe
  • Page 8a: ------> Matter vs. Radiation Energy Density
• Lecture #9 (F Apr 19) --> The Universe in the first 0.01 -0.1 seconds
  • Page 9a: ------> The Universe in the first 0.1 -1 second
  • Page 9b: ------> From 1 second to 3 minutes

• Lecture #10 (M Apr 22) --> Brief Overview of the First 3 Minutes
  • Page 10a: ------> Radiation and Matter are Coupled
• Lecture #11 (W Apr 24) --> Recombination and the end of the Ionized Universe
• Lecture #12 (F Apr 27) --> Dark Matter in the Universe

WEEK 5: GALAXIES, EXAMS AND SUPERNOVAE

• Lecture #13 (M Apr 29) --> A Universe full of Galaxies
• Lecture #14 (W May 1) --> FIRST MIDTERM
• Lecture #15 (F May 3) --> Supernova and the Periodic Table of Elements
WEEK 6: FORMATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE EARTH AND THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE

• Lecture #16 (M May 6) --> Formation of The Solar System
• Lecture #17 (W May 8) --> Formation of the Earth and Moon
• Lecture #18 (F May 10) --> Formation of Earth's Atmosphere and Early Life
  • Page 18a -----> Moving towards DNA
WEEK 7: LIFE: FROM THE OCEANS TO THE LAND SURFACE

• Lecture #19 (M May 13) --> Moving Towards Photosynthesis
• Lecture #20 (W May 15) --> Oxygen and then Ozone
  • Page 20a -----> Obstacles to Evolution on the Land
• Lecture #21 (F May 17 --> Plate Tectonics
  • Page 21a: -----> Plate Boundaries
WEEK 8: LIFE ON THE LAND: EVOLVING INTELLIGENCE(?)

• Lecture #22 (M May 20 --> Plate Tectonics and Catastrophe
  • Page 22a: -----> Climatological Catastrophe

• Lecture #23 (W May 22) --> Mass Extinctions and the Evolution of Relative Intelligence
  • Page 23a: -----> Factors that influence intelligence development
• Lecture #24 (F May 24) --> Is there Intelligent Life on the Earth
WEEK 9: INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

• Lecture #25 (M May 27) NO CLASS
• Lecture #26 (W May 29) MIDTERM #2
• Lecture #27 (F May 31) --> Probability of Extraterrestiral Intelligence
  • Page 27a: -----> One Million Civilizations ?
WEEK 10: CONTACT, COLONIZATION, CHOICES

• Lecture #28 (M Jun 3) --> Maybe just One Civilization
  • Page 28a: -----> The Radio Signature of the Earth
• Lecture #29 (W June 5) --> The End of Civilization
• Lecture #30 (F June 7) --> The End of This Class

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