Astronomy 123 AND

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Administrative stuff:

• Course Overview

• Get Your Grade (and read the directions!)

Current Events

• Visit of Jill Tarter to Class on Jan 16
• Read the second half of this and come to class prepared on Jan 16.
• Don't be a vacuum; ask some intelligent questions from this list

Some Internet Resources for This Class

• Local Astronomy Stuff
• Plate tectonic/climate resource!
• BOOMERANG page
• Quantum Cosmology (only for the brave)
• MAP's Web Site (excellent)
• 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
• The Biology Hypertext book
• Imaging the Interior of the Earth

Quizzes, Tests and Homework:

Some sample questions
Midterm Curve/Scores/Average (on the feed back page)

• First Homework Assignment (due Jan 28)
• Second Homework Assignment (due Feb 11)
• Third Homework Assignment (due Mar 01)
• Last Homework Assignment (due Mar 15)

This Search Engine is Best for Homework

LECTURES:

Lecture #01 (Jan 07) Introduction and Historical Cosmologies Lecture #02 (Jan 09) Naked Eye Observations and the Geometric Universe Lecture #03 (Jan 14) Towards Heliocentric Cosmology: A Historical Perspective Lecture #04 (Jan 16) Relativity, Curved Space Time and Expansion Lecture #05 (Jan 23) The Standard Hot Big Bang Model Lecture #06 (Jan 28) The First Second: Energy to Mass Conversion Lecture #07 (Jan 30) The First Three Minutes and the Creation of Helium Lecture #08 (Feb 04) Recombination and the end of the Ionized Universe Lecture #09 (Feb 06) The Dark Matter Universe Feb 11 MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM Lecture #10 (Feb 13) Supernova and The Formation of the Periodic Table of Elements Lecture #11 (Feb 18) A Universe full of Galaxies Lecture #12 (Feb 20) Formation of the Earth Formation of the Earth's Atmosphere and the Development of Early Life Lecture #13 (Feb 25) From the Ocean to the Land: The Development of Critters Lecture #14 (Feb 27) Obstacles to Life on the Land: Plate Tectonics and Geological Catastrophe Lecture #15 (Mar 04) Climatological Catastrophe and Mass Extinctions Lecture #16 (Mar 06) Is there Intelligent Life on Earth or just Turkeys? Lecture #17 (Mar 11) The Probability of Extraterrestrial Intelligence Lecture #18 (Mar 13) Our Place in the Cosmos

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