Astronomy Activity and Laboratory Manual

Description

BRIEF CONTENTS

• Lab  1  The World’s First Skywatcher – YOU!
• Lab  2  Shadowland
• Lab  3  Shadowland – the Sequel
• Lab  4  Shadowland Follow-up
• Lab  5  The Phases of the Moon
• Lab  6  Eratosthenes Measures the Earth
• Lab  7  Aristarchus Measures the Size and Distance of the Moon
• Lab  8  Aristarchus Measures the Size and Distance of the Sun
• Lab  9  The Copernican Cosmos
• Lab  10  Kepler’s Third Law
• Lab  11  Isaac Newton and the Moon
• Lab  12  Galileo Measures a Mountain – on the Moon!
• Lab  13  Precision Astronomy After Galileo – Stellar Aberration
• Lab  14  Precision Astronomy After Galileo – Stellar Parallax
• Lab  15  Picturing the Universe – How Photography Revolutionized Astronomy
• Lab  16  How Bright is That Star? A Tutorial on the Magnitude System
• Lab  17  The Realm of the Spiral Nebulae
• Lab  18  Hubble’s Law – in the Kitchen and in the Universe
• Lab  19  The Existence of Dark Matter in the Universe
• Lab  20  Essay Assignment: Reflecting on the Lessons of this Manual
• Appendix  Mathbits