Astronomy 102, Fall 2005.

Usefull documents, additional reading, and usefull links.

• Class handouts:
  • Course Information
  • Time Table
  • Reading List
  • How big is that?
• Practice Exams:
  • Exam 1 and Solutions Exam 1
  • Exam 2 and Solutions Exam 2
  • Exam 3 and Solutions Exam 3
• Exams:
  • Exam 1 and Solutions Exam 1
  • Exam 2 and Solutions Exam 2
  • Exam 3 and Solutions Exam 3
• Historic papers:
  • On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether, Michelson and Morley.
• Background literature:
  • Rotating black holes: locally nonrotating frames, energy extraction, and scalar synchrotron radiation, J. M. Bardeen, W. H. Press, and S. A. Teukolsky (1972).
  • Global Cosmological Parameters, M. Fukugita and C. J. Hogan (2000).
  • Big-Bang Cosmology, K. A. Olive and J. A. Peacock (2001).
  • "X" Marks the Spot: Shifting radio jets may signal the coalescence of black hole (J.R. Minkel, Scientific American, October 2002).
  • A Tale of Two C's: Gravity speed test raises some relativistic eyebrows (G. Musser, Scientific American, April 2003).
• Recent "hot" results:
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory "Hears" A Black Hole For First Time.
  • Astronomers Edging Closer to Gaining Black Hole Image, New York Times, November 3, 2005.
  • First identification of host galaxies for short gamma-ray bursts, Physics Today, November 2005.
• Outrageous literature:
  • BBC News: Not the end of the world.
  • ABC News: ATLAS shrugs.
  • Virtual trips to a black hole.

Last updated on Monday, November 7, 2005 8:07