Quantitative Activities for Introductory Astronomy

Details Quantitative Activities for Introductory Astronomy Quantitative Activities for Introductory Astronomy

Jan 2010

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #466.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.507

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We present a collection of short lecture-tutorial (or homework) activities, designed to be both quantitative and accessible to the introductory astronomy student. Each of these involves interpreting some real data, solving a problem using ratios and proportionalities, and making a conclusion based on the calculation. Selected titles include: "The Mass of Neptune” "The Temperature on Titan” "Rocks in the Early Solar System” "Comets Hitting Planets” "Ages of Meteorites” "How Flat are Saturn's Rings?” "Tides of the Sun and Moon on the Earth” "The Gliese 581 Solar System"; "Buckets in the Rain” "How Hot, Bright and Big is Betelgeuse?” "Bombs and the Sun” "What Forms Stars?” "Lifetimes of Cars and Stars” "The Mass of the Milky” "How Old is the Universe?” "Is The Universe Speeding up or Slowing Down?"

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