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WEB SYLLABUS Dept. Physics & Astronomy University of Tennessee |
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| TEXTBOOKS:
"Astronomy:
From the Earth to the Universe" (Sixth Edition),
by Jay M. Pasachoff and Online Journey Through Astronomy: The Solar System by Michael Guidry, Margaret Riedinger and Frank Edward Barnes (Student Companion by Kevin Lee) |
| Subject Matter: Introduction to Astronomy and Study of the Solar System | ||||
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| Chapter 1 | Prologue: The Universe | Chapter 12 | Mars | |
| Chapter 2 | Early History of Astronomy | Chapter 13 | Jupiter | |
| Chapter 3 | Origin of Modern Astronomy | Chapter 14 | Saturn | |
| Chapter 4 | Light & Telescopes | Chapter 15 | Uranus | |
| Chapter 5 | Observatories & Space Missions | Chapter 16 | Neptune | |
| Chapter 6 | The Sky & the Calendar | Chapter 17 | Pluto & the Kuiper Belt | |
| Chapter 7 | Structure & Origin of the Solar System | Chapter 18 | Extrasolar Planets | |
| Chapter 8 | Our Earth | Chapter 19 | Halley's & Other Comets | |
| Chapter 9 | Our Moon | Chapter 20 | Meterorites & Asteroids | |
| Chapter 10 | Mercury | Chapter 21 | Life in the Universe | |
| Chapter 11 | Venus | |||
Some Web Links
of Interest
for
Astronomy Students
If you are not familiar with the use of the World Wide Web, here is a comprehensive introduction to the use of the Web in education. (This site is advertised for K-12 education, but the content is relevant for Web educational issues at all levels.)
- Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
- AP of Day (Archives): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
- Earth and Sky: http://www.earthsky.com/
- StarDate: http://stardate.utexas.edu/
- Violence in the Cosmos: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/index.html
- Search Violence in Cosmos: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/search_violence.html
- The Nine Planets: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/
- Planetary Pictures: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/picturelist.html
- SEDS Galaxy of Images: http://www.seds.org/galaxy/
- SEDS Messier Catalog: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/
- Views of the Solar System: http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/homepage.htm
- Abrams Skywatcher's Diary: http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/diary.html
- Sky Events: http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/astronomy.html
- Sky & Telescope Bulletin: http://www.skypub.com/news/news.shtml
- Space Calendar: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/calendar.html
- Astronomy Lecture Notes: http://www.astronomynotes.com
- Network Resources: http://www.hq.eso.org/online-resources-paper/rrn.html
- Dewey Decimal: http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca/TRL/astronomy/index.html
- AstroWeb: http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html
- The Astronomy Cafe: http://www.theastronomycafe.net
- Astronomy Homework Help: http://members.aol.com/gca7sky/astrohelp.htm
- Astr Pict of Day Education Links: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
- Marshall Space Sciences Home Page: http://science.msfc.nasa.gov
- Hubble Space Telescope Public Information: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/
- STARBASE: http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/astrophysics/
Some Newsgroups
of Interest for
Astronomy
Students
If you are not familiar with how to use newsgroups, see the discussion in the webTeacher Tutorial. An FAQ is a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers) for a newsgroup.
- UT Astr 161 Newsgroup: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/newsgroups/astr161/index.html
- UT Astr 162 Newsgroup: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/newsgroups/astr162/index.html
- General Astronomy: news:sci.astro
- Amateur Astronomy: news:sci.astro.amateur
- Professional Astronomers (Moderated): news:sci.astro.research
- Hubble Space Telescope: news:sci.astro.hubble
- FAQ for sci.astro: http://sciastro.astronomy.net/
- FAQ for sci.space: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/space/top.html
guru@csep10.phys.utk.edu