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Extragalactic Astronomy Activities Manual

Extragalactic Astronomy Activities Manual

Author(s): Patrick B. Hall

Edition: 3

Copyright: 2017

Pages: 82

Edition: 3

Copyright: 2017

Pages: 82

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Students learn by doing, not by listening to lectures. The Extragalactic Astronomy Activities Manual provides over twenty astronomy activities which can be done in class or as homework assignments. They range from conceptual activities (on the inverse square law, fusion, etc.) to activities on topics not covered in other activity books (working out the lengths of the solar days on Mercury and Venus, deriving time dilation and length contraction, understanding apparent superluminal motion, etc.). Solutions are available from the author.

Patrick B. Hall

Patrick B. Hall is an astronomer, professor, and former Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at York University in Toronto, Canada. Born in California to Canadian parents, he double-majored in Physics and Astronomy at U. C. Berkeley and obtained a doctorate in astronomy at U. Arizona (even if it took him 7 and a half years to get that PhD). He then studied galaxies as a postdoctoral fellow at U. Toronto and quasars as a joint postdoc at Princeton and the Universidad Católica de Chile before joining the faculty at York. These days he divides his work time between research on quasars and their outflows, teaching astronomy and physics, and outreach. He can be reached at phall@yorku.ca.

Students learn by doing, not by listening to lectures. The Extragalactic Astronomy Activities Manual provides over twenty astronomy activities which can be done in class or as homework assignments. They range from conceptual activities (on the inverse square law, fusion, etc.) to activities on topics not covered in other activity books (working out the lengths of the solar days on Mercury and Venus, deriving time dilation and length contraction, understanding apparent superluminal motion, etc.). Solutions are available from the author.

Patrick B. Hall
Patrick B. Hall

Patrick B. Hall is an astronomer, professor, and former Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at York University in Toronto, Canada. Born in California to Canadian parents, he double-majored in Physics and Astronomy at U. C. Berkeley and obtained a doctorate in astronomy at U. Arizona (even if it took him 7 and a half years to get that PhD). He then studied galaxies as a postdoctoral fellow at U. Toronto and quasars as a joint postdoc at Princeton and the Universidad Católica de Chile before joining the faculty at York. These days he divides his work time between research on quasars and their outflows, teaching astronomy and physics, and outreach. He can be reached at phall@yorku.ca.