Week 14 (Nov. 25 - 29)
Thanksgiving: No classes Thursday or Friday
Read: The structure of the universe (Chap. 26) and Measuring the potentially infinite (Chap. 27)
Read: The structure of the universe (Chap. 26) and Measuring the potentially infinite (Chap. 27)
Quiz: Yes.
Homework exercises: Hubble's law (Ex. 26.1), Sand reckoning (Ex. 27.1) Due noon Saturday week 14.
Laboratory exercises: Finish your Planetary observations by the end of this week! Submit final report by noon Monday week 15. We will try to take the telescope out tonight or next Monday night. If it is too cloudy, we will still meet and watch the following short video about supernovae and black holes:
The structure of the universe (6 videos):
Here is an optional video on Edwin Hubble that summarizes the ideas and experiments that led to the so-called Big Bang Theory. This video is over-simplified and "made-for TV," as it were, but is still interesting.
Homework exercises: Hubble's law (Ex. 26.1), Sand reckoning (Ex. 27.1) Due noon Saturday week 14.
Laboratory exercises: Finish your Planetary observations by the end of this week! Submit final report by noon Monday week 15. We will try to take the telescope out tonight or next Monday night. If it is too cloudy, we will still meet and watch the following short video about supernovae and black holes:
The structure of the universe (6 videos):
Here is an optional video on Edwin Hubble that summarizes the ideas and experiments that led to the so-called Big Bang Theory. This video is over-simplified and "made-for TV," as it were, but is still interesting.