Beginning Astronomy Laboratory: A Hands-On Laboratory Course in Basic Astronomy
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 276
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Beginning Astronomy Laboratory courses can be difficult for students to learn and it is imperative that the instructor is prepared with the right pedagogy for teaching the material found in each laboratory exercise.
Beginning Astronomy Laboratory: A Hands-On Laboratory Course in Basic Astronomy has been designed to aid the instructor in the materials needed to teach the class and to provide methodologies for teaching this material to the beginning or general education GE student. The authors have created many hands-on sessions where students run actual equipment taking real data that they may better understand and experience the material.
Preface
Introduction
UNIT 1: Earth and Moon Motion, Maps, Time, Seasons, and Eclipses
Experiment 1
Time and Space—Coordinates of Sky Events
Experiment 2
Rotation and Revolution of the Earth
Experiment 3
Moon Phases and Eclipses
UNIT 2: Motion, Force, Energy
Experiment 4
Motions, Measurements, and Predictions
Experiment 5
Acceleration and the Value of the Acceleration of Gravity, g
Experiment 6
Forces and Energy
UNIT 3: Solar System
Experiment 7
Kepler’s Laws, Angular Momentum, and the Mass of the Moon
Experiment 8
Sun Diameter and Its Surface Features
Experiment 9
Our Solar System, Our Home System
UNIT 4: Light Property: Light Intensity and Spectroscopy
Experiment 10
The Distance Relationship of Light Intensity
Experiment 11
Spectroscopy I
Experiment 12
Spectroscopy II
UNIT 5: Optics and Telescopes
Experiment 13
The Collector of Light—Lenses
Experiment 14
Two-Lens Telescopes
Experiment 15
Sky Observation, Naked Eye, and Telescope
UNIT 6: Doppler Effect and the H–R Diagram
Experiment 16
The Doppler Shift—Mining a Star’s Light Spectra for Information
Experiment 17
The Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram
UNIT 7: Astro Imaging and Processing
Experiment 18
Astro-Photography
Experiment 19
Image Processing
APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1: Star Charts
APPENDIX 2: Star Observation Project
APPENDIX 3: Moon Observation Project
APPENDIX 4: Tables of Planetary and Solar System Information
APPENDIX 5: Tables of Data for the Sun
APPENDIX 6: Spectral Line Wavelengths for a Few Selected Elemental Gases
APPENDIX 7: Graph Paper