Wright State University Lake Campus/2020-1/Phy 1060/Syllabus

Astronomy: Phy1060 is an introductory Astronomy course that emphasizes the solar system and the universe of stars and galaxies. Topics include the earth-moon system, other planets and their satellites, space exploration, theories for the origin of the solar system stellar evolution, astrophysics, cosmology, and astrobiology. We also discuss astronomy within the context of the history of science.

Enrolled students may access all materials needed for this course through Pilot (https://pilot.wright.edu/d2l/loginh/)

The one-credit lab Phy1060L is a corequisite that focuses on Astronomical observations, experiments, as well as developing new materials based on the based on the OER textbook by OpenStax. The lab portion also includes labs from the The University of Nebraska-Lincoln astronomy education group:


 * https://astro.unl.edu/

This textbook is available online, as a downloadable pdf file. And it can be purchased for at a modest cost:
 * https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy.

The exams for this course will be created using MyOpenMath.

Monday, January 13, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/1-introduction
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/1-4-numbers-in-astronomy
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/1-5-consequences-of-light-travel-time
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/1-6-a-tour-of-the-universe

Monday, January 20, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/1-7-the-universe-on-the-large-scale
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/1-8-the-universe-of-the-very-small
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/1-9-a-conclusion-and-a-beginning
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/2-1-the-sky-above

Monday, January 27, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/2-2-ancient-astronomy
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/2-4-the-birth-of-modern-astronomy
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/3-1-the-laws-of-planetary-motion
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/3-2-newtons-great-synthesis

Monday, February 3, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/3-3-newtons-universal-law-of-gravitation
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/3-4-orbits-in-the-solar-system
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/3-6-gravity-with-more-than-two-bodies
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/4-1-earth-and-sky

Monday, February 10, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/4-2-the-seasons
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/4-6-ocean-tides-and-the-moon
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/4-7-eclipses-of-the-sun-and-moon
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/5-1-the-behavior-of-light

Monday, February 17, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/5-2-the-electromagnetic-spectrum
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/5-5-formation-of-spectral-lines
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/5-6-the-doppler-effect
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/7-1-overview-of-our-planetary-system

Monday, February 24, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/7-3-dating-planetary-surfaces
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/10-1-the-nearest-planets-an-overview
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/10-2-the-geology-of-venus
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/10-4-the-geology-of-mars

Monday, March 2, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/11-3-atmospheres-of-the-giant-planets
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/12-2-the-galilean-moons-of-jupiter
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/12-3-titan-and-triton
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/13-1-asteroids

Monday, March 9, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/13-3-the-long-haired-comets
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/14-3-formation-of-the-solar-system
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/15-1-the-structure-and-composition-of-the-sun
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/16-2-mass-energy-and-the-theory-of-relativity

Monday, March 16, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/17-2-colors-of-stars
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/17-3-the-spectra-of-stars-and-brown-dwarfs
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/17-4-using-spectra-to-measure-stellar-radius-composition-and-motion
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/18-1-a-stellar-census#60868

Monday, March 23, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/18-2-measuring-stellar-masses
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/18-3-diameters-of-stars
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/18-4-the-h-r-diagram
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/19-2-surveying-the-stars

Monday, March 30, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/19-3-variable-stars-one-key-to-cosmic-distances
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/19-4-the-h-r-diagram-and-cosmic-distances
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/20-1-the-interstellar-medium
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/20-2-interstellar-gas

Monday, April 6, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/21-1-star-formation
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/22-1-evolution-from-the-main-sequence-to-red-giants
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/22-2-star-clusters
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/22-3-checking-out-the-theory

Monday, April 13, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/22-4-further-evolution-of-stars
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/23-2-evolution-of-massive-stars-an-explosive-finish
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/26-1-the-discovery-of-galaxies
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/26-2-types-of-galaxies

Monday, April 20, 2020

 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/26-5-the-expanding-universe
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/27-1-quasars
 * https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/27-2-supermassive-black-holes-what-quasars-really-are