• Syllabus MS-Word

powerpoints

• Lecture 1 powerpoint (intro - below are the two movies that are in the powerpoint)
• galaxy collision simulation
• universe simulation ("large-scale structure")
• Another professor's powerpoint (resembles our ch.1)
• Lecture 2 powerpoint (the sky)
• Lecture 3 powerpoint (telescopes)
• Lectures 4 & 5 powerpoint (atoms & light) [movie below]
• F-14 shockwave
• Lecture 6 powerpoint (the sun) [movies below (most from SOHO)]
• artist's veiw of sunspots and magnetic field
• CME hitting Earth animation (quicktime)
• CME (notice the proton shower)
• notice; comet, CME, planet
• notice; 2 comets dive into sun, CME, planet
• spectacular CME
• SOHO - 10 years of operation 1995-2005
• Lecture 7 powerpoint (fusion) [movies below]
• nuclear weapons tests
• Shot Baker (21kt of TNT)
• CME (notice the proton shower)
• more CMEs
• Lectures 8 & 9 powerpoint (stellar properties)
• Lectures 10 & 11 powerpoint (stellar formation) [movie below]
• supernova triggered star formation
• Lectures 12 & 13 powerpoint (stellar death)
• Lectures 14 & 15 powerpoint (neutron stars & black holes)
• Lectures 16 & 17 powerpoint (Milky Way)
• Lectures 18 & 19 powerpoint (galaxies) [movie below]
• galaxy collision
• Lectures 20 & 21 powerpoint (active galaxies)
• Lectures 22 & 23 powerpoint (cosmology)

homework

1. Homework 1 (intro & the sky) MS-Word
2. Homework 2 (telecsopes) MS-Word
3. Homework 3 (light & atoms) MS-Word
4. Homework 4 (the sun) MS-Word
5. Homework 5 (stellar properties) MS-Word
6. Homework 6 (stellar formation & structure) MS-Word
7. Homework 7 (stellar death) MS-Word
8. Homework 8 (neutron stars and black holes) MS-Word
9. Homework 9 (Milky Way) MS-Word
10. Homework 10 (galaxies) MS-Word
11. Homework 11 (active galaxies) MS-Word
12. Homework 12 (cosmology) MS-Word

general interest

• interactive Milky Way panorama (really cool!)
• skytonight.com
• NASA TV
• Michiana Astronomical Society (local astronomy club!)
• Adler Planetarium (Chicago)
• Space.com
• Superstringtheory.com
• space weather
• Meteor Society
• The Planetary Society
• The Mars Society
• SETI League
• SETI@home
• SETI
• SEDS
• physicsweb
• physical constants (NIST)
• Free software similar to "The Sky" that came with your book (runs slow on my laptop though....)
• VERY cool (free!) screensaver!
• pdf file of the above screensaver
• periodic table
• thescienceforum.com
• scienceforums.net

astronomy and space-related pictures

• Hubble pictures
• more Hubble pictures
• SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) pictures & movies
• I stumbled across this little gem....

observatories

• Arecibo
• NRAO
• Gemini
• Lowell
• Kitt Peak
• LBT
• Mt. Wilson
• Palomar
• Yerkes
• Lick
• Keck

Notre Dame/IUSB/useful links

• IUSB physics homepage
• IUSB mathematics homepage
• IUSB homepage
• IUSB webmail
• ND physics homepage
• Notre Dame homepage
• Notre Dame webmail
• Google
• Wikipedia
• dictionary.com
• astro encyclopedia
• preprint database
• today's preprints
• past week's preprints
• search astro preprints
• adsabs
• SIMBAD
• NED
• CADC
• NASA ADC
• my main website

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