New Astronomy Activities Manual

1. Properties of a Transiting Extrasolar Planet

2. Temperature Scales

3. Measuring Angles

4. Motion on the Celestial Sphere

5. Motions of the Moon

6. Lunacy: Moon Phase Exercise

7. The Phases of Venus

8. Mapping the Solar System from Earth

9. Moon Phases

10. The Seasons and the Sun’s Path on the Celestial Sphere

11. Force, Acceleration, and Gravity

12. Kepler’s Laws and Elliptical Orbits

13. How Long are the Days on Mercury and Venus?

14. Electromagnetic Radiation and Thermal Spectra

15. A Scale Model of the Solar System

16. Kuiper Belt Objects

17. Age Dating Through Radioactive Decay

18. Tidal Forces and the Roche Limit

19. Stellar Masses with Newton’s Version of Kepler’s Third Law

20. Luminosity, Brightness, and the Inverse Square Law

21. Elementary Particles and Forces Review

22. Fusion in the Sun: the Proton-Proton Chain

23. Spectra

24. The Diameters And Luminosities of Stars

25. Stellar Classification

26. The Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) Diagram

27. Stellar Evolution

28. Special Relativity: Time Dilation and Length Contraction

29. Worldlines and Light Travel Time

30. What Lurks at the Center of the Milky Way?

31. Quasar Jets: a Superluminal Optical Illusion

32. The Expansion of Space

33. The Acceleration of the Milky Way

34. Civilizations in Our Galaxy: the Drake Equation