Information

Handouts

• Syllabus (Postscript)
• Homework Questions
  • Handout 1 (Postscript)
  • Handout 2 (Postscript)
  • Handout 3 (Postscript)
  • Handout 4 (Postscript)
  • Handout 5 (Postscript)
  • Handout 6 (Postscript)
• Homework Solutions
  • Assignment 1 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 2 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 3 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 4 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 5 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 6 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 7 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 8 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 9 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 10 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 11 (Postscript)
  • Assignment 12 (Postscript)
• Practice Exams
  • Midterm
  • Midterm Answer Key
  • Final
  • Final Answer Key
• Scores
  • Current H/W
  • Midterm Exam
  • Final Exam
  • Make-up Exam
• FINAL GRADES

Web Resources

• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
• Astronomical sites on the Internet (compiled by Snow and Brownsberger)
• The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
• Gravitationally Lens a Picture From the Web!
• Web site for the text Universe, Origins and Evolution (by Snow and Brownsberger)
• Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph, along with a brief explanation.
• History of Mathematics. Read the biographies of the following Scientists
  • Isaac Newton
  • John Flamsteed
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace
  • Gustav Kirchhoff
  • Willem de Sitter
  • Karl Schwarzschild
  • James Jeans
  • Albert Einstein
  • Arthur Eddington
  • Aleksandr Friedmann
  • Edwin Hubble
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  • Stephen Hawking
• Current and Upcoming Major Space Missions for X-ray Astronomy
  • ASCA (launched 20 Feb 1993)
  • BeppoSAX (launched 30 Apr 1996)
  • Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (launched 30 Dec 1995)
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory (scheduled launch July 9, 1999)
  • X-ray Multimirror Mission (scheduled launch Jan 2000)
  • Astro-E (scheduled launch Jan 24, 2000)
  • A compendium of NASA space science missions.