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REVISED
ASTR 1 Syllabus
Dr. Paul Langacker
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2003 semester
Syllabus suggestions for Bennett et al’s The Cosmic Perspective, 3/e.
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chapter, such as summaries, quizzes, electronic version of the end-of-chapter questions, flashcards and
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Date
Bennett
Tutorials
Movies
Carl Sagan
VHS or DVD
Sep 4 Ch 1: Our Place in the
Universe
#1
Scale of the
Universe
From the Big 1-2 Opening
Bang to
1-3 The
Galaxies
Cosmos
Special: A
1-4 Spaceship
Tour of the
Earth
Solar System
1-5 Spaceship
Galaxy
1-6 Spaceship
Stars
1-7 Spaceship
Solar System
1-8 Planet
Earth
1-11 Cosmic
Calendar
Sep 9 Ch 2.1 – 2.4 Discovering Seasons
the Universe for Yourself
#2
The Celestial 7-2 What are
Sphere
Stars?
7-3 Brooklyn
Time and
Schoolroom
Seasons
7-4 Mythology
of Stars
1-9
Alexandrian
Library
1-10 Ages of
Voyager: SkyGazer
CD ROM
Cosmic
Lecture
CD ROM
Explore Menu
PowerPoint
1) Solar Neighborhood
Text’s Art
2) Paths of the Planets
File: Demo Folder
1) Dipper +80000 years
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
File: Basis Folder
PowerPoint
1) Analemma
Text’s Art
2) Challenging the Time
3) Chart Clock
4) Rubber Horizon
5) Day and Night
6) Defining the Horizon
7) Dragging the Sky
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
1
Date
Bennett
Tutorials
Movies
Carl Sagan
VHS or DVD
Science
13-6 Hypatia
Voyager: SkyGazer
CD ROM
8) Night Sky in Nairobi
9) Chicago 10000AD
Cosmic
Lecture
CD ROM
Internet
images
10) North Pole 3
11) Precession of the
Equinoxes
12) Grid Lines
13) Night Sky in Nairobi
14) Rubber Horizon
15) Startup
16) Sunset in Winnipeg
17) Three Cities
18) Winter Milky Way
19) Winter Sky
File: Demo Folder
1) Russian Midnight Sun
2) Drunken Moon
3) Earth Orbiting the Moon
4) Orbit of the Moon 2
Sept Ch 2.5 – 2.6: Discovering Phases of the
11 the Universe for Yourself Moon
#3
Eclipse
File: Basic Folder
1) Christmas Eclipse
2000
2) Eclipse 1991-2 Views
3) Europe Eclipse 1999
4) Lunar Eclipse
5) Shadow over America
6) South Carolina Eclipse
7) Totality
8) Moon Along the
Ecliptic
9) Phase of the Moon
10) Moon Orbit
PowerPoint
Text’s Art
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
11) Planet’s Path
File: Demo Folder
1) African Eclipse June
2001
2) American Eclipse
2017-2 views
3) South Carolina
Eclipse-2017
4) Drunken Moon
5) Earth Orbiting Moon
6) Earth-Moon from
Mars
7) Orbit of the Moon 2
8) Mars in Retrograde
Explore Menu
1) Shadows on the Earth
2
Date
Bennett
Tutorials
Movies
Carl Sagan
VHS or DVD
Voyager: SkyGazer
CD ROM
Cosmic
Lecture
CD ROM
2) Phases of the Planets
3) Solar System
7-2 What are
Stars?
7-3 Brooklyn
Schoolroom
7-4 Mythology
of Stars
1-9 Alexandrian
Library
1-10 Ages of
Science
13-6 Hypatia
7-5 Ancient
Greek Scientists
7-6 Science
Blossoms
7-7 Democritus
7-8Pythagoras
7-9 Plato and
Others
Sept Ch 3: The Science of
16 Astronomy,
#4
S1: sections: 1, 5, and 6
Sep Ch 5: Universal Motion
18
Orbits and
Kepler’s
Laws
#5
Orbits in the 3-4 Laws of
Solar System Nature
3-7 Ptolemy /
Copernicus
3-8 Kepler
3-9 Kepler and
Tycho Brahe
3-10 Kepler’s
Laws
3-11 The
Somnium
File: Basic Folder
1) Precession of the
Equinoxes
2) Ptolemy on Venus
3) Follow a Planet
4) Phase of Mercury
PowerPoint
Text’s Art
Extra
Internet
images
5) Planet Orrery
6) Planet Panel
7) Planet Paths
File: Demo Folder
1) Ptolemy on Mars
File: Basic Folder
PowerPoint
1) Follow a Planet
Text’s Art
2) Phase of Mercury
3) Planet Orrery
4) Planet Panel
5) Planet Paths
6) Pluto's Orbit
7) Saturn
8) Saturn's Phases
9) Tracking Venus
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
10) Ptolemy on Venus
File: Demo Folder
1) Earth and Venus
2) Hale-Bopp Path
3) Hyakutake at Perihelion
4) Hyakutake nears Earth
5) Pluto's Orbit
6) Trailing Saturn
7) Triple Conjunction of 7 BC
8) Venus-Earth-Moon
9) Ptolemy on Mars
Explore Menu
1) Solar System
2) Paths of the Planets
Sept Ch 6: Light: The Cosmic Light and
23 Messenger
Spectroscopy
9-9 Star Stuff
10-5 Doppler
File: Basic Folder
PowerPoint
1) Large Stars
3
Date
Bennett
Tutorials
Movies
Carl Sagan
VHS or DVD
Effect
#6
Ch 4 sections: 4.3, 4.4
The Doppler
Effect
Voyager: SkyGazer
CD ROM
2) More Stars
3) Star Color and Size
Cosmic
Lecture
CD ROM
Text’s Art
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
Sept. Ch 7: Telescopes
25
#7
9-9 Star Stuff
10-5 Doppler
Effect
10-11 VLA
6-2 Voyager,
JPL
7-10 Distance to
Stars
The Doppler
Effect
Light and
Spectroscopy
File: Basic Folder
PowerPoint
1) Large Stars
Text’s Art
2) More Stars
File: Spacecraft:
1) Galileo to Jupiter
2) Giotto encounters Halley
3) Missions to Jupiter
4) Ulysses below Sun
Sept. Ch 8: Our Solar System: Formation of
30 An Intro and Overview the Solar
System
#8 Ch 9: Formation of the
Solar System
Extrasolar
Planetary
Detection
History of
the Solar
System
1-7 Spaceship
Solar System
4-7 Venus
4-8 Descent to
Orbits in the Venus
Solar System 4-9 Change
4-10 Death of
Worlds
4-11 Conclusion
Special: A
5-2 Martians
Tour of the
5-3 Lowell
Solar System
5-4 Edgar Rice
Burroughs
5-5 Goddard
5-6 Inhabited
Planets
5-7 Mars
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
5) Voyager I and II
Extra
Internet
images
File: Basic Folder
PowerPoint
1) Follow a Planet
Text’s Art
2) Phase of Mercury
3) Planet Orrery
4) Planet Panel
5) Planet Paths
6) Pluto's Orbit
7) Saturn
8) Saturn's Phases
9) Tracking Venus
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
10) Ptolemy on Venus
File: Demo Folder
1) Earth and Venus
2) Hale-Bopp Path
3) Hyakutake at Perihelion
4) Hyakutake nears Earth
5) Pluto's Orbit
6) Trailing Saturn
7) Triple Conjunction of 7 BC
8) Venus-Earth-Moon
9) Ptolemy on Mars
Explore Menu
1) Solar System
2) Paths of the Planets
Oct 2 Ch 10: Planetary Worlds: Shaping
History of
1-7 Spaceship
FILE: Demo Folder
PowerPoint
4
Date
Bennett
Tutorials
Movies
Carl Sagan
VHS or DVD
#9
Earth and Other
Terrestrial Planets
Solar System
4-5 Collisions
with Earth
Special: A
Orbits in the 4-7 Venus
4-9 Descent to
Tour of the Solar System Venus
Solar System
4-10 Death of
Worlds
4-11 Conclusion
5-2 Maritans
5-3 Lowell
5-4 Edgar Rice
Burroughs
5-5 Goddard
5-6 Inhabited
Planets
5-7 Mars
Planetary
Surfaces
the Solar
System
1-7 Spaceship
Solar System
4-5 Collisions
with Earth
4-7 Venus
4-9 Descent to
Venus
4-10 Death of
Worlds
4-11 Conclusion
5-2 Maritans
5-3 Lowell
5-4 Edgar Rice
Burroughs
5-5 Goddard
5-6 Inhabited
Planets
5-7 Mars
Oct 7 Ch 11: Planetary
Surface
Atmospheres: Earth &
Temperature
#10 Other Terrestrial Worlds of
Terrestrial
Planets
Special: A
Tour of the
Solar System
Oct 9 Ch 12: Jovian Planet
Systems
#11
6-7 Traveler’s
Tales
6-8 Jovian
System
6-9 Europa and
Orbits in the Io
Solar System 6-10 Voyager
Ships’ Log
Special: A
History of
Tour of the the Solar
Solar System System
Voyager: SkyGazer
CD ROM
1) Earth & Venus
2) Venus-Earth-Moon
3) Ptolemy on Mars
Explore Menu
1) Solar System
2) Paths of the Planets
Cosmic
Lecture
CD ROM
Text’s Art
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
FILE: Demo Folder
PowerPoint
1) Earth & Venus
Text’s Art
2) Venus-Earth-Moon
3) Ptolemy on Mars
Explore Menu
1) Solar System
2) Paths of the Planets
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
File: Spacecraft:
1) Galileo to Jupiter
2) Giotto encounters
Halley
3) Missions to Jupiter
File: Basic Folder
1) Tracking Jupiter & Io
PowerPoint
Text’s Art
Extra
Internet
images
2 Saturn’s Phases
3) Saturn
File: Demo Folder
1) Backside of Jupiter
2) Locked on Dione
3) Three Moons on Jupiter
4) Trailing Saturn
Explore Menu:
1) Paths of the Planets
2) The Solar System
5
Date
Bennett
Tutorials
Movies
Carl Sagan
VHS or DVD
Voyager: SkyGazer
CD ROM
Cosmic
Lecture
CD ROM
3) Solar Neighborhood
Oct NO CLASS
14
Oct Ch 13: Remnants of
16 Rock and Ice: Asteroids,
Comets and Pluto
#12
History of
the Solar
System
Oct Ch 15: Our Star
21
Ch 6: Light REVIEW
#13
Special: A
The Sun
Tour of the
Solar System
Oct Ch 16: Stars
23
Measuring
Cosmic
Distances
Lives of
Stars
#14
The H-R
Diagram
4-3 Tunguska
Event
4-5 Collisions
with Earth
9-6 Nuclear
Forces
9-7 The Stars
and Our Sun
9-6 Nuclear
Forces
9-7 The Stars
and Our Sun
9-9 Star Stuff
10-5 Doppler
Effect
7-10 Distance to
Stars
File: Basic Folder
1) Pluto’s Orbit
PowerPoint
Text’s Art
File: Demo Folder
1) Hale-Bopp Path
2) Hyakutake at
Perihelion
3) Hyakutake nears Earth
Extra
Internet
images
File: Basic Folder
PowerPoint
1) Large Stars
Text’s Art
2) More Stars
3) Star Color and Size
Extra
Internet
images
FILE: BASIC FOLDER
PowerPoint
1) Large Stars
Text’s Art
2) More Stars
3) Star Color and Size
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
Oct Ch 16: Stars Continued
28
The H-R
Diagram
Lives of
Stars
#15
9-6 Nuclear
Forces
9-7 The Stars
and Our Sun
9-9 Star Stuff
10-5 Doppler
Effect
7-10 Distance to
Stars
FILE: BASIC FOLDER
PowerPoint
1) Large Stars
Text’s Art
2) More Stars
3) Star Color and Size
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
Oct Ch 17: Star Stuff
30
#16
The H-R
Diagram
Stellar
Evolution
Lives of
Stars
Double Stars
File: Basic Folder
PowerPoint
1) Large Stars
Text’s Art
2) More Stars
3) Star Color and Size
4) Tracking Altair
5) Tracking Proxima Centauri
File: Demo Folder
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
6
Date
Bennett
Tutorials
Movies
Carl Sagan
VHS or DVD
Voyager: SkyGazer
CD ROM
1) Barnard's Star
2) Circling the Hyades
Cosmic
Lecture
CD ROM
Extra
Internet
images
3) Flying around Pleiades
4) The Tail of Scorpios
5) Crab from Finland
Nov 4 Ch 18: The Bizarre
Stellar Graveyard
#17
Ch S3: sections 1, 4 and
5
Stellar
Evolution
Lives of
Stars
Black Holes
9-8 Death of
Stars
9-9 Star Stuff
9-10 Gravity in
Wonderland
9-11 Children of
the Stars
PowerPoint
Text’s Art
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
Nov 6 Ch 18: Continued
Stellar
Evolution
#18
Black Holes
Lives of
Stars
9-8 Death of
Stars
9-9 Star Stuff
9-10 Gravity in
Wonderland
9-11 Children of
the Stars
PowerPoint
Text’s Art
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
Nov Ch 19: Our Galaxy
11
#19
REVIEW
Orbits and
Kepler’s
Laws
10-2 Big Bang
The Milky
Way Galaxy 10-3 Galaxies
10-4 Astronomical
Anomalies
File: Basic Folder
PowerPoint
1) Milky Way
Text’s Art
2) Wide Field Milky Way
3) Winter Milky Way
4) Lagoon Nebulae
Explore Menu
1) Solar Neighborhood
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
Nov Ch 20: A Universe of
13 Galaxies
Measuring
Cosmic
Distances
#20
Hubble’s
Law
From the Big 7-10 Distance to File: Basic Folder
Stars
Bang to
1) Galaxies in Coma
10-2 Big Bang
Galaxies
2) Lagoon Nebulae
10-3 Galaxies
10-4 Astronomical
Anomalies
10-5 Doppler
Effect
10-6 Humeson
PowerPoint
Text’s Art
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
7
Date
Bennett
Tutorials
Movies
Carl Sagan
VHS or DVD
10-7 Dimensions
10-8 The
Universe
Nov Ch 21: Galaxy Evolution
18
#22
Cosmic
Lecture
CD ROM
Extra
Internet
images
PowerPoint
From the Big
Bang to
Galaxies
Text’s Art
#21
Nov Ch 22: Dark Matter and
20 the Fate of the Universe
Voyager: SkyGazer
CD ROM
Extra
Internet
images
10-7 Dimensions
10-8 The
Universe
Detecting
Dark Matter
in a Spiral
Galaxy
PowerPoint
Text’s Art
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Fate of the
Universe
Extra
Internet
images
Nov Ch 23: The Beginning of Hubble’s
23 Time
Law
PowerPoint
From the Big
Bang to
Galaxies
Text’s Art
#23
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
Nov THANKSGIVING
27
Dec 2 Ch 23 continued
Hubble’s
Law
#24
PowerPoint
From the Big
Bang to
Galaxies
Text’s Art
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
Dec 4 Ch 24: Life in the
Universe
#25
REVIEW:
Detecting
Extrasolar
Search for
Extraterrestrial
8-6 Interstellar
Travel
12-2 Close
Encounters
PowerPoint
Text’s Art
8
Date
Bennett
Tutorials
Movies
Carl Sagan
VHS or DVD
Planets
Life
12-3 Refutations
12-4 UFOs
12-8 SETI
12-9 Arecibo
12-10 Drake
Equation
12-11
Encyclopedia
Galactica
13-7 Big Bang
and the Stuff of
Life
13-8 Evolution
of Life
13-10 What
Humans Have
Done
13-11 We Speak
for Earth
Voyager: SkyGazer
CD ROM
Cosmic
Lecture
CD ROM
Tutorial
Tools and
Animations
without text
pedagogy
Extra
Internet
images
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