Astronomy 123 AND

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Administrative stuff:

Some Internet Resources for This Class

• Local Astronomy Stuff
• The Current Phase of the Moon
• Excellent Overview of the Early Universe
• Jeff Willick's Cosmology from Stanford
• Some good Internet tutorials on Cosmology
• A good primer on different Galaxy types
• Some Essays by Joe Silk - good information
• The Periodic Table of Elements
• Hubble Space Telescope
• The Biology Hypertext book
• Imaging the Interior of the Earth

Quizzes, Tests and Homework:

• First Homework Assignment (Due June 30)
• Second Homework Assignment (Due July 21)
• Third Homework Assignment (Due August 4)

• Final Exam now Available until August 11

• This Search Engine is Best for Homework

LECTURES:

Lecture #01 Introduction and Historical Cosmologies Lecture #02 Naked Eye Observations and the Geometric Universe Lecture #03 Relativity, Curved Space Time and Expansion Lecture #04 The Standard Hot Big Bang Model Lecture #05 The First Second: Energy to Mass Conversion Lecture #06 The First Three Minutes and the Creation of Helium Lecture #07 Recombination and the end of the Ionized Universe Lecture #08 The Dark Matter Universe Lecture #09 A Universe full of Galaxies Lecture #10 Supernova and The Formation of the Solar System Lecture #11 Formation of the Earth's Atmosphere and the Development of Early Life Lecture #12 From the Ocean to the Land: The Development of Critters Lecture #13 Obstacles to Life on the Land: Plate Tectonics and Geological Catastrophe Lecture #14 Climatological Catastrophe and Mass Extinctions Lecture #15 Is there Intelligent Life on Earth? Lecture #16 The Probability of Extraterrestrial Intelligence Lecture #17 Our Place in the Cosmos

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