Physics 55: Astronomy Courses and Textbooks

Courses:

• List of college-level astronomy courses
• Cornell University, "The Nature of the Universe", Astronomy 101/103. Uses the book "The Cosmic Perspective" by Bennett et al.
• Harvard: Astronomy 1, "The Astronomical Universe". Uses the book "Discovering the Universe" by Comins and Kaufmann.
• Haverford: Astronomy 101, "Astronomy 101". Uses the book "21st Century Astronomy by J. Hester et al".
• North Carolina School of Science and Math, John Kolena's astrophysics course.
• Ohio State Introductory Courses
  1. Astronomy 161, "Solar System Astronomy"
  2. Astronomy 162, Introduction to Stellar, Galactic, & Extragalactic Astronomy by Professor Ryden.
• Online Journey Through Astronomy (Brooks/Cole).
• University of Maryland "Introduction to Astronomy". Uses the book "The Essential Cosmic Perspective (2nd edition), by Bennett, Donahue, Schneider, & Voit"
• University of Massachusets "Astronomy 100". Uses the book "Introduction to Astronomy" by Arny.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Astronomy 31.
• University of Tennessee Astronomy 161: The Solar System and Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology. Uses the book Foundations of Astronomy by Michael Seeds.
• U. of Washington, Seattle "Astronomy 101". Uses the book "Voyages to the Stars and Galaxies" by Fraknoi et al.
  • Course web page.
  • Activities.

Textbooks:

• Astronomy Notes, online book by Nick Strobel.
• Cosmology Online Tutorial by Ned Wright.
• From Stargazers to Starships, online book by David P. Stern.
• Lecture Notes on General Relativity by Sean Carroll.

• 21st Century Astronomy by Jeff Hester, David Burstein, George Blumental, Ronald Greeley, Bradford Smith, Howard Voss, and Gary Wegner.
• The Cosmic Perspective, 4e by J. Bennett, M. Donahue, N. Schneider, and M. Voit (Addison Wesley Longman, 2007).
• Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millenium by Jay Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko.
• Foundations of Astronomy, 8e 2005 by Michael Seeds.
• Foundations of Modern Cosmology, 2e by John F. Hawley and Katherine A. Holcomb. Textbook developed for students, especially non-science majors, who take an intro astronomy course and want to take a second such course.
• In Quest of the Universe, 4e by Karl Kuhn and Theo Koupelis (Jones and Bartlett Publishers). Book website is here .
• Modern Astrophysics, by Bradley Carroll and Dale Ostlie.
  • Computer codes, including C++ and F95 versions.
• Universe, 7e. by Kaufmann and Freedman, the companion website is here. Astronomy Online demo available here.
• Voyages Through the Universe (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac), Third Edition, Andrew Fraknoi and David Morrison.