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?
  • Page 1a: ------> Small Comment
• Lecture #2 --> Historical Cosmologies and Cultural Bias
  • Page 2a: ------> Early Cosmologies
  • Page 2b: ------> Towards Geocentricism
• Lecture #3 --> Moving toward Curved Spacetime
  • Page 3a: ------> Newton and Einstein
• Lecture #4 --> More on The Expanding Universe
  • Page 4a: ------> Quantum Theory/Measurement
• Lecture #5 --> The Thermal History of the Universe I.
  • Page 5a: ------> Quarks; Quantum Fluctuations
• Lecture #6 --> The Thermal History of the Universe II.
  • Page 6a: ------> Radiation versus Matter
  • Page 6b: ------> Elementary Particle Creation
• Lecture #7 --> The Thermal History of the Universe III.
  • Page 7a: ------> Making Helium
• Lecture #8 --> The Radiation Dominated Universe
• Lecture #9 --> Dark Matter and the Fate of the Universe
  • Page 9a: ------> Mini-Review for the Midterm
• Lecture #10 --> From Recombination to the Formation of the Earth
  • Page 10a: ------> 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
  • Page 12a: ------> Polymers to DNA
  • Page 12b: ------> Blue-Green Algae, Photosynthesis and Oxygen Production
• Lecture #13 --> Obstacles to Life Evolving on the Land
  • Page 13a: ------> Plate Tectonics on the Earth
• Lecture #14 --> Evolution of Relative Intelligence
  • Page 14a: ------> 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?
  • Page 16a: ------> One Million Intelligent Civilizations ?
  • Page 16b: ------> Why N might be one
  • Page 16c: ------> The Radio Signature of The Earth
• Lecture #17 --> The End of Civilization?
• Lecture #18 --> Our place in the Cosmos
  • Page 18a: ------> The End of the class

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