Astronomy and Cosmology
Fall 2008

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

ADDITIONAL READINGS

• Global warming
• Antibiotic resistant bacteria
• Evolution of the human genome

PHYSICS WEBSITES

• On-line science simulations from PHeT

ASTRONOMICAL WEBSITES

• Planet finding: Radial Velocity Method
• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
• Chandra X-ray Observatory Photo Album
• Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph, along with a brief explanation.
• Astronomical animations
• History of Mathematics. Read the biographies of the following Scientists
  • Aristotle (384BC-322BC)
  • Euclid of Alexandria (c.325BC-c.265BC)
  • Aristarchus of Samos (c.310BC-c.320BC)
  • Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276BC-194BC)
  • Claudius Ptolemy (c.85-c.165)
  • Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
  • Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
  • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
  • Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
  • Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
  • John Flamsteed (1646-1719)
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
  • James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
  • Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1832-1928)
  • Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909)
  • Willem de Sitter (1872-1934)
  • Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916)
  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
  • Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)
  • Aleksandr Friedmann (1888-1925)
  • Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
  • Stephen Hawking (1942- )
• Current and Upcoming Major Space Missions for X-ray Astronomy
  • Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (launched 30 Dec 1995)
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory (launched 23 Jul 1999)
  • X-ray Multimirror Mission (launched 10 Dec 1999)
  • Suzaku (launched 10 July 2005)
  • A compendium of NASA space science missions.

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Please send any comments to Jack Hughes, jph "at" physics.rutgers.edu.

Revised August 6, 2008