0220
Beginning Astronomy

Greg Tucker
TuTh 10:30-11:50AM
Room 141

Thu 1/24
No demo.

Tue 1/29
Celestial sphere
Seasons, use shadow board and lamp
VdG dome w little man on a velcro board

Thu 1/31
1. Seasons - shadows
2. Styrofoam Earth - with Mark's little guy!
Some more velcro squares
3. Incandescent bulb for the Sun
4. Green tape for making lines on the wall
5. Post-it notes
6. Sharpie
7. Meter stick
7. A small sphere which I can hold and use as a Moon with
the styrofoam Earth
8. A basketball to show phases
9. Precession
10. Colored chalk (this would be good for every class)
11. Moon phases with wireless camera, ball on a mater stick and rotating turntable.

Tue 2/5
Video of ripple tank - single slit narrow
single slit wide
double slit
Blackbody variac, prism, slide projector.
his iClicker on his laptop

Thu 2/27
Projector/variac/spectrometer
Laser pointer
Meter stick
Photoelectric w IP39
Sodium lamp on camera
student gratings, He, H2 spectra
Doppler buzzer
his iClicker on his laptop

Tue 2/12
Blackboard optics
Josephine's eye
Meade refractor to take apart in class
Equatorial/alt-az mount
Radio and Faraday cage

Thu 2/14
Josephine's eye.
Reflector telescope (to show alt-az equatorial).
Meade refractor (+screwdriver).
Sunspot on OHP.
Solar cell convection.
Hydrostatic equilibrium fish tank and
sinking, floating and neutral buoyant objects.

Thu 2/21
The flat Magdeburg spheres - t
Crookes tube (or CRT) and magnet to show that charged particle paths
are curved in the presence of magnetic fields.

1/r^2 demo (the light and board to make a shadow)

Perhaps I could try the balloons this
time?

Tue 2/26
No demo
exam

Thu 2/28
blue sky rayleigh scattering

Tue 3/4
Hoberman
Rotating bands
Flash tube

Thu 3/6
Supernova (core collapse) - the coke can version.

Tue 3/11
death of a star video
Basket Ball tennis ball
Degeneracy pressure
Flashlight & rotator pulsar model

Thu 3/13
Dave Cutts
1) Video on black holes.
2) The equivalence principle, either the ball and spring version or the magnet version.
3) Curved space - the bucket and membrane.
4) Special Relativity video edits with train.

Tue 3/18
H alpha two compasses

Thu 3/20
Grav Lens
Video: Margaret Geller's "Where the Galaxies are". Make DV of this.

Thu 4-3
Grav Lens

Tue 4-8
exam

On Thursday 4-10
Inflatable balloon and flexible ruler to show Hubble's law.
Video: Complete Cosmos. The Expanding Universe: From Big Bang to Big Crunch.

tue 4-15
Leon's triangles

Thur 4-17
Video: Nova. Runaway Universe.
Me to start. He is away.
student HW to Andria Smith's office (BH514)

Tue 4-22
no demo

Thu 4-24
Seti Video
Greenhouse Effect

Done!!

Note: may use projector on Tue 4-29 review