Astronomy 123 On-line Access
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Course Materials
Administrative stuff:
Course Overview
Course Outline
Helpful Computer Hints for Survival in this Class
Paperless Class
The TA for this Class
Post To the Newsgroup for This Class
Read The Newsgroup for This Class
Some Internet Resources for This Class
The Periodic Table of Elements
Hubble Space Telescope
Quizzes, Tests and Homework:
Examples of previous test questions
Get your Grade
Distribution of Exam Grades First Exam
Answers to the First Exam (Postscript file)
Distribution of Exam Grades Second Exam
Answers to the Second Exam (PostScript File)
What's My Grade Going into the Final?
Student Designed Pages:
Robyn Joy's world
Visit Ben
Lectures:
Lecture #1 -->
What is this Class About Anyway?
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Small Comment
Lecture #2 -->
Historical Cosmologies and Cultural Bias
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Early Cosmologies
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Towards Geocentricism
Lecture #3 -->
Moving toward Curved Spacetime
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Newton and Einstein
Lecture #4 -->
More on The Expanding Universe
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Quantum Theory/Measurement
Lecture #5 -->
The Thermal History of the Universe I.
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Quarks; Quantum Fluctuations
Lecture #6 -->
The Thermal History of the Universe II.
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Radiation versus Matter
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Elementary Particle Creation
Lecture #7 -->
The Thermal History of the Universe III.
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Making Helium
Lecture #8 -->
The Radiation Dominated Universe
Lecture #9 -->
Dark Matter and the Fate of the Universe
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Mini-Review for the Midterm
Lecture #10 -->
From Recombination to the Formation of the Earth
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Formation of the Earth By Accretion
Lecture #11 -->
Formation of the Earth's Atmospheres and Oceans
Lecture #12 -->
From Chemistry to DNA to Oxygen in the Earth's Atmosphere
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Polymers to DNA
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Blue-Green Algae, Photosynthesis and Oxygen Production
Lecture #13 -->
Obstacles to Life Evolving on the Land
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Plate Tectonics on the Earth
Lecture #14 -->
Evolution of Relative Intelligence
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Factors that determined the rate of growth of relative Intelligence
Lecture #15 -->
Is there Intelligent Life on Earth?
Lecture #16 -->
Is there Intelligent Life in the Universe?
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One Million Intelligent Civilizations ?
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Why N might be one
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The Radio Signature of The Earth
Lecture #17 -->
The End of Civilization?
Lecture #18 -->
Our place in the Cosmos
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The End of the class