Astronomy C10: Introduction to General Astronomy

GSI: Matt George
mgeorge@astro.berkeley.edu
715 Campbell Hall

This website contains handouts for Matt George's Astronomy C10 sections. Enrolled students should also look at bSpace for more course information and resources. Contact Matt if you have questions or suggestions.

Handouts

Week 1 - 8/27/08

Syllabus
Worksheet surveying course material
Pale Blue Dot - or, Why I Care About Astronomy and You Should Too
Math review
Math worksheet

Week 2 - 9/3/08

Light, Sound, and Fury

Week 3 - 9/10/08

Blackbody and Emission-Line Spectra (Arc Lamp Demo) - courtesy Dan Perley
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) article
LHC comic

Week 4 - 9/17/08

Design a $1B telescope - Cost to diameter scaling relationship

Week 5 - 9/24/08

Quiz 1 Solutions

Week 7 - 10/8/08

Tides and Terrestrial Planets Hodgepodge

Week 8 - 10/15/08

Asteroid tracking article
Asteroid and KBO questions

Week 9 - 10/22/08

Quiz 2 Solutions

Week 12 - 11/12/08

Search for Dark Matter Particles
Gravitational Lensing and Dark Matter

Week 13 - 11/19/08

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays (vanity link)
The Ol' Bear Report: Bad Wordplay and Analogies

Week 14 - 12/3/08

Annie Hall clip
CMB info sheet - courtesy Nicholas McConnell
Mists of time (CMB & cosmology worksheet) - courtesy Dan Perley

Week 15 - 12/10/08

Final Review worksheets - courtesy Nicholas McConnell
   WS 1 (solutions)
   WS 2 (solutions)
Jeopardy questions - courtesy Josh Shiode
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" and "The Galaxy Song"