This Lab Manual is designed for a 1-credit hour companion course that goes with a course that uses Big Bang, Black Holes, No Math. It gives students more of a hands-on understanding of the concepts surrounding the Big Bang and Black Holes in an effort to de-mystify them. With an emphasis on interpretation of data, with minimal data analysis techniques and only basic high-school algebra, students gain insight into the process of gathering and interpreting evidence for use in the field of Cosmology and to do so in a way that is communicable to a lay audience.
This Lab Manual is Designed to Accompany Big Bang, Black Holes, No Math
David
Toback
David Toback is the Thaman Professor for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence and Professor in the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University. His research is at the interface of particle physics and cosmology, and has spent his career searching for new particles including the top quark, the Higgs boson, supersymmetric particles and dark matter.