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The recommended textbook accompanying this class in Spring 2014 was | |||
Pathways to Astronomy, 3rd Edition | Pathways to Astronomy, 3rd Edition | ||
Stephen E. Schneider and Thomas T. Arny | Stephen E. Schneider and Thomas T. Arny | ||
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ISBN 978-0-07-351213-6 | ISBN 978-0-07-351213-6 | ||
== Sections and Topics for Elementary Astronomy 107 | == Sections and Topics for Elementary Astronomy 107 as used in the Spring 2014 Semester == | ||
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'''How to measure distances across the universe''' | '''How to measure distances across the universe''' | ||
*Units 3, 10.3, 54.1-54.4, 55, 64, 66 | *Units 3, 10.3, 54.1-54.4, 55, 64, 66 | ||
'''The expanding universe and the beginning of time''' | '''The expanding universe and the beginning of time''' | ||
Latest revision as of 22:30, 23 July 2014
The recommended textbook accompanying this class in Spring 2014 was
Pathways to Astronomy, 3rd Edition Stephen E. Schneider and Thomas T. Arny McGraw-Hill, 2012 ISBN 978-0-07-351213-6
Sections and Topics for Elementary Astronomy 107 as used in the Spring 2014 Semester
Constellations
- Looking up at the front of the book
- Star charts at end of book
- Units 5.1-5.3, 6.1-6.2, 6.6
The Sun keeps us warm
- Units 6.3-6.5, 7.1-7.2, 38.2, 51.1-51.4, 52.1, 53.1-53.4 56.1-56.5
Telescopes, spacecraft, and the solar system
- Units 1, 34, 44, 48, 30, 32
The Moon
- Units 6.5, 8.1-8.3, 39
Mars, Saturn, and extra-solar planets
- Units 42, 45, 47
Comets, meteors, and meteorites
- Units 49, 50
Periodic table of elements and the Universe
- Units 2, 4.2, 67.4, 83.1-83.2
Subatomic particles, birth and death of stars, black holes
- Units 4.4, 52, 60, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69.1-69.3
How to measure distances across the universe
- Units 3, 10.3, 54.1-54.4, 55, 64, 66
The expanding universe and the beginning of time
- Units 66.3, 75, 80
Galaxies near and far
- Units 71, 74, 76, 78
Special and General Relativity
- Units 26, 27, 69.2, 79.3, 80.2, 82
Things beyond our understanding
- Units 77, 79, 80, 81
The story of the universe
- Units 83, 84