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ASTRONOMY 110 a survey of astronomy
Office Hours:
Paul Coleman: MWF (10:30-11:30,
12:30-13:30)
Watanabe 402
:Course details and notes http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/gruff/default/Coleman.html
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ASTRONOMY 110 a survey of astronomy
Required:
Any printed edition of:
The Essential Cosmic Perspective by
Jeffrey Bennett, Megan Donahue, Nicholas
Schneider, Mark Voit, Addison Wesley
Readings will be assigned out of the most recent
version – but the last 3 or so versions should
have the material as well.
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Possible Grading Schemes:
1. 2 – 3 midterm exams + final + etc.
2. Weekly quizzes + optional final + etc.
3. No work at all
Wheel of misfortune !!
• Homework
• Extra curricular extra credit Imaginarium visit
Faulkes telescope observing
Evening lecture(s)
Stargazing
A research paper
bad grade
good grade
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ASTRONOMY 110 a survey of astronomy
Every Week: Monday: Return quiz from previous week – Update
on your progress
Wednesday: Collect homework and give solutions
Friday: Quiz, Solution, and Homework and Reading assignment
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Homework problem:
• Send an E-mail to Dr. Coleman before
Thursday August 26… Tell him the magic
word
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Our Place in the
Universe
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A Modern View of the Universe
• What is our physical place in the Universe?
• Describe our cosmic origins and why we say
that we are “star stuff.”
• Why does looking into space mean looking
back in time?
Our goals for learning:
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Address: Earth
• How would the
Universal post office
find us?
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A large, glowing ball of gas that generates
heat and light through nuclear fusion
Star
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Planet
A moderately large object which orbits a star;
it shines by reflected light. Planets may be
rocky, icy, or gaseous in composition.
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Moon
An object which
orbits a planet.
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Asteroid
A relatively small
and rocky object
which orbits a star.
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Comet
A relatively
small and
icy object
which orbits
a star.
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Solar (Star) System
A star and all the material which orbits it,
including its planets and moons
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Nebula
An interstellar cloud
of gas and/or dust
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Galaxy
A great island of stars in space, all
held together by gravity and
orbiting a common center
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Universe
The sum total of all matter and
energy; that is, everything within
and between all galaxies
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Atom Microscopic “building blocks” of all
chemical elements
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Where do we come from? • The first (and simplest) atoms were created during
the Big Bang.
• More complex atoms were created in stars.
• When the star dies, they are expelled into space…. to form new stars and planets!
Most of the atoms in our
bodies were created in
the core of a star!
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Looking back in time
• Light, although fast, travels at a finite speed.
• It takes: – 8 minutes to reach us from the Sun
– 8 years to reach us from Sirius (8 light-years away)
– 1,500 years to reach us from the Orion Nebula
• The farther out we look into the Universe, the farther back in time we see!