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Updated 12.9.2009
Monday, October 18
- Read chapters 3 & 4
- Chapter 3: Light buckets
- The Subaru Telescope and Mauna Kea
Tuesday, October 19
- More about the Subaru
- Basic telescope design
- Compare diameter of Human pupil to regular size and Keck telescopes (Bring telescopes up from planetarium)
- Pass out and explain Visualizing Expansion project
Wednesday, October 20
- Finish large telescope types
Thursday, October 21 – Small class due to Con Con
- Finish large telescope types
Friday, October 22 – Small class due to Con Con
- Finish large telescope types
Monday, October 25
- Visualizing Expansion Due
- Refractors: Galilean and Keplerian (abberation and manufacturing limitations and sagging problems)
- Reflectors: Newtonian and Cassegrian
Tuesday, October 26
- Telescope info. Link 1 | Keck | Wiki telescope page.
- Challenges with terrestrial telescopes (Earth's rotation, light pollution, convection currents, translucency of the atmosphere, limited observation time, weather)
- vonFraunhofer's discovery
- Huggins' light and chemical connections
- Discovery of Helium and connection of our Sun to other stars
- The Doppler Effect
Wednesday, October 27
Thursday, October 28
- The big bang
- Binary stars
- Discovering extrasolar planets
- Einstein's gravity - space-time and the nature of gravity
Friday, October 29
- More on space-time
- Einstein's biggest blunder (Einstein wanted steady state but Lemaitre wanted Big Bang - the Cosmological Constant)
Monday, November 1
- The Primordial Soup
- Stars: Chemical gardens
Tuesday, November 2
- Chapters 3 & 4 Quiz