Additional Resources
Here are a few links to notes and examples to supplement your studies:
Review Notes
The following links will take you to pages devoted to review sheets, samples
questions, and practice exams.
Exam 1
Exam 2
Final Exam
Learning Objectives
The following sets include selected keywords, reading selections from the
course texts, and essential concepts covered.
Exam 1: From Ancient Greece to
Einstein (48kB doc or 92kB
pdf)
Exam 2: The Sun and the Nature of Stars (48kB
doc)
Supplemental Notes
The History of Astronomy
The following notes
expand upon material that is typically covered before the first exam.
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Renaissance Astronomy
Determining Scale in the Copernican Universe
Trigonometric Parallax (9kB gif)
The Birth of Physics
Combined file: Ancient Greece, Renaissance, Birth of Physics (344kB doc)
Terrific Doppler effect by Amtrak Texas Eagle (YouTube)
Modern Physics
The Special Theory of Relativity (176kB doc)
(516kB pdf)
The General Theory of Relativity (128kB doc)
(376kB pdf)
Special Relativity Keynote presenation (4MB pdf)
Geometric Optics
The Hydrogen Atom and the Origin
of Spectra Lines (308kB doc)
Stellar Evolution
The Standard Solar Model
Post-Main Sequence Evolution of a
Solar-Type Star
Anatomy of a Black Hole
Cosmology
The Early Universe
The Birth of Cosmology
Additional Information
Diagrams
Eastern Iowa Obseravtory and Learning Center directions
Notes on Scientific Notation
Anatomy of a Comet
Astronomical Oddities
Full Moons in Folklore
Presentations
A Sense of Place presentation (2.1 MB pdf)
Ancient Astronomies presentation (5.8 MB pdf)
The Shoulders of Giants I presentation (2.2 MB pdf)
The Shoulders of Giants II presentation (2.7 MB pdf)
Special Relativity presentation (1.8 MB pdf)
General Relativity presentation (1.3 MB pdf)
Echo of the Big Bang presentation (3.3MB
pdf)
Celestial Relics presentation (Huge 11.3 MB pdf)
Suggested Reading List
Although not an exhaustive list, any of the popular books described would be worthy supplements
to the required books and would also serve as excellent reference for the term paper and other
assigments.
Additional Reading Material
