Wright State University Lake Campus/2019-1/Phy1060/Notes

Syllabus -- Notes -- Pilot-- textbook -- Astronomy college course -- Phy1060/Old studyguide -- slides - wright.miraheze.org

Week 1
Later: Coriolis effect: https://www.windows2universe.org/teacher_resources/ocean_education/TheOceanInMotion.pdf

1/15 (T) Link to textbook. Exponential notation.

 * 1) Textbook:We got to https://cnx.org/contents/LnN76Opl@17.1:bRq9BafY@8/Numbers-in-Astronomy
 * 2) Student Essay: exponential notation

1/16 (W) Chapter 1: A brief tour

 * Slides 01: A brief tour
 * 1) https://cnx.org/contents/LnN76Opl@17.1:vJqc7PER@11/A-Conclusion-and-a-Beginning

1/17 (R) Chapter 2: Birth of Astronomy

 * Slides 02: Nighttime sky - Birth of astronomy
 * 1) https://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/stargazers-corner/solar-eclipse-lab-sunny-day/

Week 2
MLK off 1/21(M)

1/23 (W) Slides: 3 Orbits and Gravity
Ptolemy's world map Ch 3 slides gravity

1/24 (R) Newton's dark secrets and intro to calculus
Newton's Dark Secrets: Slope of a parabola $$y=x^2$$ at x=0: $$\lim_{h\rightarrow 0} = \frac{2h+h^2}{h}=2$$

1/25 (F) Newton's dark secrets and exponential growth on a spreadsheet
Finish Newton and perhaps do exponential growth on a spreadsheet.

2/18 (M) Ch 9 Cratered Worlds
Got to page 13

3/1 (F)
Chapter 19

Spring Break
No classes 3/4(M)-3/9(S)

3/12 (T)
I will allow contributions to the following Symposium to replace all or part your exam scores. If it replaces final exam, you must do work after the last day of class. Chapter 21

Symposium

 * Students interested in presenting a poster that presents new numerical questions using Python, Excel, Matlab are encouraged to submit a poster. I will help you with the details.Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 18:57, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * https://lake.wright.edu/research/research-symposium
 * The symposium will be held in Dicke Hall on Thursday April 18, 2019 from 11:00am to 1:30pm. * Refreshments will be provided.
 * If you would like to present at this year’s symposium please RSVP your project title, author names, and brief abstract to stephen.jacquemin@wright.edu by the end of the day on Monday March 25, 2019 for inclusion in the program.

3/14 (R) Quiz
Quiz:

{The Hayashi and Henyey tracks refer to how T Tauri of different masses will move } - through an HR diagram as they die - through a cluster as they die - through a cluster as they are born - Two of these are true + through an HR diagram as they are born {How do low-mass stars change as they are born? } - Increasing temperature with no change in luminosity - Increasing luminosity with no change in temperature - Decreasing temperature and increasing luminosity - Decreasing temperature with no change in luminosity + Decreasing luminosity with no change in temperature

{Stellar parallax is } + an annual change in angular position of a star as seen from Earth - an astronomical object with known luminosity. - the total amount of energy emitted per unit time. - a numerical measure of brightness as seen from Earth - a numerical measure of brightness as seen from a distance of approximately 33 light-years

{Luminosity is } - an annual change in angular position of a star as seen from Earth - an astronomical object with known luminosity. + the total amount of energy emitted per unit time. - a numerical measure of brightness as seen from Earth - a numerical measure of brightness as seen from a distance of approximately 33 light-years

{A standard candle is} - an annual change in angular position of a star as seen from Earth + an astronomical object with known luminosity. - the total amount of energy emitted per unit time. - a numerical measure of brightness as seen from Earth - a numerical measure of brightness as seen from a distance of approximately 33 light-years

{Absolute magnitude is } - an annual change in angular position of a star as seen from Earth - an astronomical object with known luminosity. - the total amount of energy emitted per unit time. - a numerical measure of brightness as seen from Earth + a numerical measure of brightness as seen from a distance of approximately 33 light-years

{Relative magnitude is} - an annual change in angular position of a star as seen from Earth - an astronomical object with known luminosity. - the total amount of energy emitted per unit time. + a numerical measure of brightness as seen from Earth - a numerical measure of brightness as seen from a distance of approximately 33 light-years

3/19 (T)
Chapter 23 death of stars

3/29 (F)
Played with the two experiments: simultanaety and spray diagrams 2d

4/8 (M)
Lab: Drake's equation
 * 1) Make a sketch showing why N = RL where R is the rate of formation and L is the lifetime.
 * 2) Do an excel spreadsheet showing how f=f1f2f3 for two coins and one dice. Verify the approximation that the standard deviation of S is $$\sqrt{Nf}$$ where N is the number of attempts, and S=Nf is the number of successes.

4/11 (R)

 * Borodin, Alexander: string quartet No. 2 in D, 3rd movement
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhP1GnAvm0w

4/12 (F)
https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/ua/default.html Celestial_spheres and

4/15 (M)
This alleviates most of my skepticism about the black hole.

4/17 (W)
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-variations-fogginess-universe-milestone-cosmic.html
 * Betelgeuse

Week 15
Last day of classes is 4/27(S)

4/22 (M)
Discussed fina. See below.

4/23 (T)
Gridiron pendulum

4/24 (W)
black hole - Elsewhere - World line

nasa.gov

538

Large binocular telescope Dyson sphere white dwarf

4/25 (R)
continue with above.

4/26 (F)
https://www.livescience.com/65300-hawking-black-hole-theory-unlikely.html

Astronomy_Final_Exam_2019
 Takehome final exam for all, in class final for some 
 * 1) Details will be announced on Wikiversity on Friday 26 April. These details will include what grade you will get if you don't take the final exam multiple choice test on Wednesday 1 May 1-3 pm. You will be informed by Pilot before Friday.
 * 2) Regardless of whether you take the final exam, you must submit 10-15 exam questions.  This is required by all students, but not all students are required to take the final exam on Wednesday 1 May from 1-3pm.
 * 3) Attach a pdf, word, or excel document to an email to  guy.vandegrift@wright.edu
 * 4) You are encouraged to include short explanations. If you have "poor" or unfinished questions already typed up, don't hesitate to include them as well.

4/29 (M)
2:00 PM deadline for submitting preliminary version of takehome. Email it to guy.vandegrift@wright.edu

4/30 (T)
I will be off-campus all day, but plan to email you with a tentative grade, with suggestions on how to improve it by either adding more questions, or taking the final exam.

5/1 (W)
Final exam is Monday 1 May for those who wish to take it. A study guide can be found at this link:

Wright_State_University_Lake_Campus/2019-1/Phy1060/Old_studyguide

5/2 (R)
I will be available for most of the day.

5/3 (F)
11:59 PM deadline for submitting final version of the takehome.