ASTRONOMY 102 HOME PAGE
Mark your calendars! Final exam at 8.30am on 22nd April
See the UBC Rules Governing Formal Examinations page and my
Exam tips page.
TA OFFICE HOURS TO DISCUSS THE Fourth ASSIGNMENT (IN HENNINGS 312):
- Mon 7th April, 9am (Sunny)
- Mon 7th April, 10am (Daryl)
- Mon 7th April, 3pm (Sunny)
- Tues 8th April, 2pm (Daryl)
- Tues 8th April, 3pm (Scott)
The Course Information page
This is the 1-page summary of course information, handed out in the
first lecture.
"pdf" version
Lab write-up tips
This is some advice on how to write up a good lab report, written
by Rob Ferdman, one of our former Teaching Assistants
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"html" version
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"pdf" version
"Course Goals" Survey
Here is a summary of the responses to the questions on course goals:
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(html file)
Assignments
Here are the problem sets etc. (mainly pdf files):
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Maths quiz
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Assignment 1
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Assignment 2
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Assignment 3
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Assignment 4
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Practice mid-term and
answers
Astronomy Web-Sites
Useful web-sites for different parts of the course.
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Your
Astrology Defence Kit, written by Andrew Fraknoi
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The Thirty Metre Telescope project
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The Spitzer Space Telescope
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The Hubble Space Telescope
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory
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The Solar and Heliospheric
Observatory (SOHO)
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The MOST mission (based at UBC!)
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The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
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The
Standard Model of Particle Physics
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SN 1987A Wikipedia page
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Pulsar
sounds
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Queen's "time dilation"
song from YouTube and the
Lego version
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Einstein Light
- excellent resource on Relativity
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Black holes at the "amazing space" site
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The Canadian Galactic Plane
Survey and the Star Trek view
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UCLA Galactic Center
group and their
movie of stellar motions
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Max Planck Galactic Center
group and
their movie
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Cosmology
FAQ page from your Instructor!
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The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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The Supernova Cosmology Project
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A History of
Scientific Cosmology