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

Phy1060 (Astronomy)
Click here to learn about the final exam take-home and option in-class test

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

1/18 (F)

Week 2

MLK off 1/21(M)

1/22 (T) Coriolis force

1/23 (W) Slides: 3 Orbits and Gravity

w: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.

Week 3

1/28 (M) Ch4 Earth, Moon, and Sky

2/1 (F) Ch 5 Radiation and Spectra

Week 4

2/4 (M) Ch 6 Astronomical Instruments

2/5 (T) Ch7 Other Worlds: An Introduction to the Solar System

2/8 (F) Strike ends

Week 5

2/12 (T) Chasing Pluto

2/13 (W) Chasing Pluto

2/14 (R): Chasing Pluto test

2/15 (15): Ch8 Earth as a Planet

Week 6

2/18 (M) Ch 9 Cratered Worlds

Got to page 13

2/19 (T)

2/20 (W)

2/21 (R)

2/22 (F)

Week 7

2/25 (M)

2/26 (T)

2/27 (W)

2/28 (R)

3/1 (F)

Chapter 19

Spring Break

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

Week 9

3/11 (M) Ch20 & Computers

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.

3/13 (W)

3/14 (R) Quiz

Quiz:

click to view

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

3/15 (F)

Week 10

3/18 (M)

3/19 (T)

Chapter 23 death of stars

3/20 (W)

3/21 (R)

3/22 (F)

Week 11

3/25 (M)

3/26 (T)

3/27 (W)

3/28 (R)

3/29 (F)

Played with the two experiments: simultanaety and spray diagrams 2d

Week 12

4/1 (M)

4/2 (T)

4/3 (W)

4/4 (R)

4/5 (F)

Week 13

4/8 (M)

Lab: Drake's equation

Make a sketch showing why N = RL where R is the rate of formation and L is the lifetime.
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.

4/9 (T)

4/10 (W)

4/11 (R)

4/12 (F)

https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/ua/default.html w:Celestial_spheres and w:

Week 14

4/15 (M)

This alleviates most of my skepticism about the black hole.

4/16 (T)

4/17 (W)

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-variations-fogginess-universe-milestone-cosmic.html

w:Betelgeuse

4/18 (R)

4/19 (F)

Week 15

Last day of classes is 4/27(S)

4/22 (M)

Discussed fina. See below.

4/23 (T)

w: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

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.
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.
Attach a pdf, word, or excel document to an email to guy.vandegrift@wright.edu
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#FE_Monday_1_May_2019

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.

Week 1

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

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

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