Phys 202:  Astronomy, Fall 2007

Homework assignments

Week 1 25-31 Aug

Ch 1:  23, 53?

In class/Group: 16, 21, 22, 53?

Ch 2:  34, 55

Lab: Observatory visit

Week 2 3-7 Sept

Ch 3:  2

Ch 4: cont’d

Lab: Horizon System 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 13

Week 3 10-14 Sept

Ch 4: 15, 16, ?53 (from web or movie)

Ch 5: cont’d

Lab: Prisms, mirrors, lenses

Week 4 17-21 Sept

Ch 5: 11, 17 (list the types of electromagnetic radiation from lowest energy to highest energy), 19, 21, 49

Ch 6: 7, 18; I will assign groups to these, answers to be reported in class: 45, 47, 48, 49, 50

Lab:  Grating spectrometer with tubes of gas, CLEA spectrum lab

Week 5 24-28 Sept

Ch 16: 20, 37, 42

Ch 17: 16, 19, 24, 25

Lab: CLEA Rotation of Sun

Week 6 1-5 Oct

Ch 18: 1, 8, 36

Ch 19: cont’d

Lab: CLEA Solar Energy

Week 7 8-12 Oct

Ch 19: 6, 14, 24

Lab: No lab -- Fall Weekend

Week 8 15-19 Oct

Ch 20: 11, 18, 37, 56

Ch 21: 29, 34, 59

Lab:  Pleiades (HR diagram)

Week 9 22-26 Oct

Ch 22: 12, 14, 24, 56

Ch 23: 18, 42, 58

Lab:  CLEA Dying Stars and Birth of Elements (XMM lab)

Week 10 29 Oct - 2 Nov

Ch 24: 33, 45

Ch 25: 10

Lab: CLEA Pulsar

Week 11 5-9 Nov

Ch 26: 16, 30

Lab:  CLEA Hubble Redshift

Week 12 12-16 Nov

Ch 27: 8, 26

Lab: CLEA Large Scale Structure