These notes are provided as a reminder of our class discussion topics, and are not a substitute for taking good notes in class! These are taken from my own slide notes, information in [brackets] is image identification for my own records.
8/22/00
- Appearance of the Sky (pdf notes)
8/24/00
- Light Pollution
8/29/00
- Motion of the Sun and and Seasons; Time (pdf notes)
8/29/00
- iPen sketch of limits of Sun's position as seen from Boone
8/29/00
- iPen sketch of solar/sidereal day
8/31/00
- Time, Calendar, Phases of Moon, Planet Motions (pdf notes)
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- EXTRA notes on Moon's motions
8/31/00
- iPen sketch of different kinds of "years"
9/5/00
- Derivation of Small Angle Equation, and example application to the Moon
9/14/00
- Discussion of Homework Problem Set 1
9/14/00
- Discussion of significant figures - "question mark math"
9/14/00
- Comments on homework
9/14/00
- Synodic and sidereal period calculations
9/14/00
- Venus' orbit size from trig
9/19/00
- Kepler's 3rd law -- sample calculation done with iPen
9/19/00
- Newton's first two laws of motion - iPen sketch notes
9/19/00
- Newton's laws - "Potato" example (10kg = 22 lb kid and 10-g car crash)
9/19/00
- Newton's third law, applied to rocket; Newton's law of Universal
Gravitation
10/3/00
- Ballistic missle actually in a Keplerian orbit about Earth's center -
iPen sketch
10/3/00
- Centripetal Force demo calculation, shows Fc = weight - iPen notes
10/3/00
- Low Earth Orbit period calculation from Fc = Fg - iPen notes
10/3/00
- Geosynchronous orbit calculation from Fc = Fg - iPen notes
10/5/00
- iPen notes on waves
10/5/00
- Slide notes on light and electromagnetic waves
10/10/00
- Slide notes on remaining topics in the EM spectrum and light
10/19/00
- Class lecture outline notes on optics
10/24/00
- iPen notes on light gathering power of telescopes
10/24/00
- iPen notes on angular resolution of telescopes
10/24/00
- Class lecture outline notes on optical telescopes and instrumentation
10/26/00
- Class lecture outline notes on telescopes of the world
10/26/00
- Class lecture outline notes on satellites
10/31/00
- Class lecture outline notes on radio telescopes
10/31/00
- Class lecture outline notes on Physical processes in the solar system
10/31/00
- iPen notes: going over Homework #3
11/2/00
- Class lecture outline notes: the rest of physical processes
11/2/00
- iPen notes on Wien's Law calculation
11/2/00
- iPen notes on nuclear bombs: fission and fusion
11/7/00
- iPen notes on exam review questions (orbits)
11/7/00
- iPen notes on exam review questions (optics, escape velocity effect on
atmospheric gas retention)
11/7/00
- Class lecture outline notes on the Earth (up to continental drift)
11/14/00
- iPen Notes on Earth's magnetic field and aurora
11/14/00
- Class lecture outline notes--rest of Earth
11/14/00
- Class lecture outline notes--starting on the Moon
11/16/00
- Class lecture outline notes on meteors (in prep for Leonid shower, but
clouded out...)
11/21/00
- Class lecture outline notes on Mercury and Venus (prior to "Venus Unveiled"
Nova video)
11/28/00
- Class lecture outline notes on Mars
11/30/00
- Class lecture outline notes on the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
Neptune and Pluto)
12/05/00
- Class lecture outline notes on Asteroids
12/05/00
- Class lecture outline notes on Comets
