Contents
shadow lengths May 5, 2001
shadow lengths November 16, 2002
shadow lengths November 13, 2004
Limited shadow measurements for May 6, 2006
Shadow lengths measurements, Oct. 28, 2006
Shadow measurements, Feb. 16-17, 2008
Shadow measurements, May 10, 2008
Shadow measurements, Feb. 14, 2009
Shadow measurements, May 9, 2009
Shadow measurements, Feb. 12, 13, 2010
Shadow measurements, May 6, 7, 8, 9, 2011
Shadow measurements, Nov. 5, 6,7, 2011
Shadow measurements Feb. 17, 18, 2012
Shadow measurements May 12, 2012
Shadow measurements Nov. 3, 2012
Shadow measurements Feb. 2013
Lecture number
index to A360 web page
syllabus
Lecture Notes and Exercises
L1
daylight.htm
a360_daylight_ex.htm
de_caelo_commentary.htm
L2
celestial_matter_motion.htm
ptolemy_almagest.htm
Erastothenes - round earth
Zhou bi suan - flat earth
distance to the horizon
parallax exercise
L3
helio_geo.htm
def_epicycle.htm
L4
ptolemy_model.htm
L5
Forensic reconstruction of Copernicus
kepler.htm
keplers_laws.htm
L6
galileo.htm
L7
natural law
newton.htm
prime_age_newton.htm
newton_philosophy.htm
L8
cavendish.htm
tidal_force.htm
tidal_forcetable.htm
L9, midterm, see instructor or - see faculty page for schedule if K. Aniol is instructor
L10
brightness magnification of telescopes
angular magnification of telescopes
diffraction limit
Hubble's methodology
Hubble's third claim for the scientific method
L11
Olber's Paradox
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Stellar parallax
L12
Charles Messier's catalog of nebulae
Island Universe Theory
Some of William Herschel's discoveries
William Herschel biography
Milky Way photos
Orion Nebula photos
William Herschel's catalog of nebulae
Rev. John Michell and double stars
Pleiades star cluster
Earl of Rosse paper on spiral nebulae
Rosse Telescope
M51 and dynamics
Can we know what the stars are made of?
L13
Fraunhofer and spectroscopy
Bunsen and spectroscopy
Kirchoff and spectroscopy
Huggins and the chemical composition of the stars
L14
Doppler and stellar velocities
Mass of the galaxy
Massive Black Hole in Center of Galaxy
L15
Simon Newcomb and the Astronomical Unit
classification of stellar spectra
L16
Black body radiation
L17
Cepheid variables and the distance scale
Distances in astronomy
L18
The expanding universe, Hubble's discovery
Hubble's 1929 paper on the expanding universe
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Project
Excellent synopsis of cosmology from WMAP
L19
Nucleosynthesis of the Elements
dark matter
dark energy
Geometry of the Universe from WMAP
L20
Is laboratory based science enough to understand the Universe?
highlights of the course
Outside Activities
Field exercise to determine the radius of the Earth
Determining the distance to the moon