syllabus & course expectations & course links
Astronomy
Picture of the Day the
latest astrophysics discoveries
what's up in the sky
this week
Skywatcher's
Diary for this month
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August 30 |
August 31 |
September 1 |
September 2 |
September 3 |
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make a list of "behaviors" of light (ways in which light can interact with matter) do they support a particle or wave interpretation (or both)? |
28(1,2) know the formula that predicts the angle of constructive interference diffraction for the two-slit experiment: what things does this angle depend on directly? inversely? |
know 1) how to describe a blackbody 2) what the rules of blackbody light curves are: how is a hotter bb's curve different from a cooler one? 3) what a photon's energy depends on |
new: box 5-2 flux examples box 5-3 review 5(4) new: 19(2) and box 19-2 |
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August 23 |
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August 25 |
August 26 |
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The Fabulous CCD (article handed out in class on lilac) |
know the three basic types of spectra and what physical states of matter produce them coming attractions: monday: 5(3-4); know the blackbody laws, and know the 3 ways that a hotter blackbody curve differs from a cooler blackbody curve |
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10 properties (of stars) to find from spectra due today | |||
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images for first lab |
and how they work |
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(student store has them for sale) |
we meet in the Elab |
we meet in the Bryan 1st floor computer cluster across from the elevator |
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10th planet discovered newborn black holes: just seconds old rare pre-supernova star identified shock wave hits Supernova 1987A wind ring |
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