REVISED ASTR 1 Syllabus Dr. Paul Langacker University of Pennsylvania Fall 2003 semester Syllabus suggestions for Bennett et al s The Perspective, 3/e. In addition to the media assets listed below, the web site includes many self-assessment tools for each chapter, such as summaries, quizzes, electronic version of the end-of-chapter questions, flashcards and suggested web links. Note: The movies and tutorials can be previewed on AstronomyPlace at www.astronomyplace.com To create a new instructor s account, please register with the unique access code in your Instructor s Access Kit that was bundled with the professor copy of Bennett et al s The Perspective, 3/e or see Corinn Berman for an access code. Date Bennett s Movies Carl Sagan Sep 4 #1 Ch 1: Our Place in the Scale of the 1-2 Opening 1-3 The Cosmos 1-4 Spaceship Earth 1-5 Spaceship Galaxy 1-6 Spaceship 1-7 Spaceship 1-8 Planet Earth 1-11 Calendar 1) Solar Neighborhood 1) Dipper +80000 years Sep 9 #2 Ch 2.1 2.4 Discovering the for Yourself Seasons The Celestial Sphere Time and Seasons 7-2 What are? 7-3 Brooklyn Schoolroom 7-4 Mythology of 1-9 Alexandrian Library 1-10 Ages of File: Basis Folder 1) Analemma 2) Challenging the Time 3) Chart Clock 4) Rubber Horizon 5) Day and Night 6) Defining the Horizon 7) Dragging the Sky 1
Date Bennett s Movies Carl Sagan Science 13-6 Hypatia 8) Night Sky in Nairobi 9) Chicago 10000AD 10) North Pole 3 11) Precession of the Equinoxes 12) Grid Lines 13) Night Sky in Nairobi 14) Rubber Horizon 15) Startup 16) Sunset in Winnipeg 17) Three Cities 18) Winter Milky Way 19) Winter Sky 1) Russian Midnight Sun 2) Drunken Moon 3) Earth Orbiting the Moon 4) Orbit of the Moon 2 Sept 11 #3 Ch 2.5 2.6: Discovering the for Yourself Phases of the Moon Eclipse 1) Christmas Eclipse 2) Eclipse 1991-2 Views 3) Europe Eclipse 1999 4) Lunar Eclipse 5) Shadow over America 6) South Carolina Eclipse 7) Totality 8) Moon Along the 9) Phase of the Moon 10) Moon Orbit 11) Planet s Path 1) African Eclipse June 2) American Eclipse 3) South Carolina 4) Drunken Moon 5) Earth Orbiting Moon 6) Earth-Moon from 7) Orbit of the Moon 2 8) Mars in Retrograde 1) Shadows on the Earth 2) Phases of the Planets 2
Date Bennett s Movies Carl Sagan 2) Phases of the Planets 3) Sept 16 #4 Ch 3: The Science of Astronomy, S1: sections: 1, 5, and 6 7-2 What are? 7-3 Brooklyn Schoolroom 7-4 Mythology of 1-9 Alexandrian Library 1-10 Ages of Science 13-6 Hypatia 7-5 Ancient Greek Scientists 7-6 Science Blossoms 7-7 Democritus 7-8Pythagoras 7-9 Plato and Others 1) Precession of the Equinoxes 2) Ptolemy on Venus 3) Follow a Planet 4) Phase of Mercury 5) Planet Orrery 6) Planet Panel 7) Planet Paths 1) Ptolemy on Mars Sep 18 #5 Ch 5: Universal Motion Orbits and Kepler s Laws Orbits in the 3-4 Laws of Nature 3-7 Ptolemy / Copernicus 3-8 Kepler 3-9 Kepler and Tycho Brahe 3-10 Kepler s Laws 3-11 The Somnium 1) Follow a Planet 2) Phase of Mercury 3) Planet Orrery 4) Planet Panel 5) Planet Paths 6) Pluto's Orbit 7) Saturn 8) Saturn's Phases 9) Tracking Venus 10) Ptolemy on Venus 1) Earth and Venus 2) Hale-Bopp Path 3) Hyakutake at Perihelion 4) Hyakutake nears Earth 5) Pluto's Orbit 6) Trailing Saturn 7) Triple Conjunction of 7 BC 8) Venus-Earth-Moon 9) Ptolemy on Mars 1) Sept 23 Ch 6: Light: The Messenger Light and Spectroscopy 1) Large 2) More 3
Date Bennett s Movies Carl Sagan #6 Ch 4 sections: 4.3, 4.4 The Doppler 2) More Sept. 25 #7 Ch 7: Telescopes The Doppler Light and Spectroscopy 10-11 VLA 6-2 Voyager, JPL 7-10 Distance to 1) Large 2) More File: Spacecraft: 1) Galileo to Jupiter 2) Giotto encounters Halley 3) Missions to Jupiter 4) Ulysses below Sun 5) Voyager I and II Sept. 30 #8 Ch 8: Our : An Intro and Overview Ch 9: Formation of the Formation of solar Planetary Detection History of Orbits in the 1-7 Spaceship 4-7 Venus 4-8 Descent to Venus 4-9 Change 4-10 Death of Worlds 4-11 Conclusion 5-2 Martians 5-3 Lowell 5-4 Edgar Rice Burroughs 5-5 Goddard 5-6 Inhabited Planets 5-7 Mars 1) Follow a Planet 2) Phase of Mercury 3) Planet Orrery 4) Planet Panel 5) Planet Paths 6) Pluto's Orbit 7) Saturn 8) Saturn's Phases 9) Tracking Venus 10) Ptolemy on Venus 1) Earth and Venus 2) Hale-Bopp Path 3) Hyakutake at Perihelion 4) Hyakutake nears Earth 5) Pluto's Orbit 6) Trailing Saturn 7) Triple Conjunction of 7 BC 8) Venus-Earth-Moon 9) Ptolemy on Mars 1) 2 Ch 10: Planetary Worlds: Shaping History of 1-7 Spaceship FILE: Demo Folder 1) Earth & Venus 4
Date Bennett s Movies Carl Sagan #9 7 #10 9 #11 Earth and Other Terrestrial Planets Ch 11: Planetary Atmospheres: Earth & Other Terrestrial Worlds Ch 12: Jovian Planet Planetary Surfaces Surface Temperature of Terrestrial Planets Orbits in the History of Orbits in the 4-5 Collisions with Earth 4-7 Venus 4-9 Descent to Venus 4-10 Death of Worlds 4-11 Conclusion 5-2 Maritans 5-3 Lowell 5-4 Edgar Rice Burroughs 5-5 Goddard 5-6 Inhabited Planets 5-7 Mars 1-7 Spaceship 4-5 Collisions with Earth 4-7 Venus 4-9 Descent to Venus 4-10 Death of Worlds 4-11 Conclusion 5-2 Maritans 5-3 Lowell 5-4 Edgar Rice Burroughs 5-5 Goddard 5-6 Inhabited Planets 5-7 Mars 6-7 Traveler s Tales 6-8 Jovian 6-9 Europa and Io 6-10 Voyager Ships Log 1) Earth & Venus 2) Venus-Earth-Moon 3) Ptolemy on Mars 1) FILE: Demo Folder 1) Earth & Venus 2) Venus-Earth-Moon 3) Ptolemy on Mars 1) File: Spacecraft: 1) Galileo to Jupiter 2) Giotto encounters 3) Missions to Jupiter 1) Tracking Jupiter & Io 2 Saturn s Phases 3) Saturn 1) Backside of Jupiter 2) Locked on Dione 3) Three Moons on Jupiter 4) Trailing Saturn : 1) Paths of the Planets 2) The 3) Solar Neighborhood 5
Date Bennett s Movies Carl Sagan 3) Solar Neighborhood 14 NO CLASS 16 #12 Ch 13: Remnants of Rock and Ice: Asteroids, Comets and Pluto History of 4-3 Tunguska Event 4-5 Collisions with Earth 1) Pluto s Orbit 1) Hale-Bopp Path 2) Hyakutake at Perihelion 3) Hyakutake nears Earth 21 #13 Ch 15: Our Star Ch 6: Light REVIEW The Sun 9-6 Nuclear Forces 9-7 The and Our Sun 1) Large 2) More 23 #14 Ch 16: Measuring Distances The H-R Diagram 9-6 Nuclear Forces 9-7 The and Our Sun 7-10 Distance to FILE: BASIC FOLDER 1) Large 2) More 28 #15 Ch 16: Continued The H-R Diagram 9-6 Nuclear Forces 9-7 The and Our Sun 7-10 Distance to FILE: BASIC FOLDER 1) Large 2) More 30 #16 Ch 17: Star Stuff The H-R Diagram Stellar Evolution Double 1) Large 2) More 4) Tracking Altair 5) Tracking Proxima Centauri 1) Barnard's Star 6
Date Bennett s Movies Carl Sagan 4 #17 Ch 18: The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard Ch S3: sections 1, 4 and 5 Stellar Evolution Black Holes 9-8 Death of 9-10 Gravity in Wonderland 9-11 Children of the 1) Barnard's Star 2) Circling the Hyades 3) Flying around Pleiades 4) The Tail of Scorpios 5) Crab from Finland 6 #18 Ch 18: Continued Stellar Evolution Black Holes 9-8 Death of 9-10 Gravity in Wonderland 9-11 Children of the 11 #19 Ch 19: Our Galaxy REVIEW Orbits and Kepler s Laws The Milky Way Galaxy 10-2 Big Bang 10-3 10-4 Astronomical Anomalies 1) Milky Way 2) Wide Field Milky Way 3) Winter Milky Way 4) Lagoon Nebulae 1) Solar Neighborhood 13 #20 Ch 20: A of Measuring Distances Hubble s Law 7-10 Distance to 10-2 Big Bang 10-3 10-4 Astronomical Anomalies 10-6 Humeson 1) in Coma 2) Lagoon Nebulae 7
Date Bennett s Movies Carl Sagan 18 #21 20 #22 Ch 21: Galaxy Evolution Ch 22: Dark Matter and the Fate of the Detecting Dark Matter in a Spiral Galaxy Fate of the 10-7 Dimensions 10-8 The 10-7 Dimensions 10-8 The 23 #23 Ch 23: The Beginning of Time Hubble s Law 27 THANKSGIVING Dec 2 #24 Ch 23 continued Hubble s Law Dec 4 #25 Ch 24: Life in the REVIEW: Detecting solar Pl t Search for terrestrial Life 8-6 Interstellar Travel 12-2 Close Encounters 8
Date Bennett s Movies Carl Sagan Planets Life 12-3 Refutations 12-4 UFOs 12-8 SETI 12-9 Arecibo 12-10 Drake Equation 12-11 Encyclopedia Galactica 13-7 Big Bang and the Stuff of Life 13-8 Evolution of Life 13-10 What Humans Have Done 13-11 We Speak for Earth 9