Course Web Page for 
PH1600: Introductory Astronomy

 

Instructor: Dr. R. Nemiroff / V. Tilvi
email: vpshetti at mtu dot edu

 

Fall 2005 Syllabus

Course Description

Most of the documents are in PDF format

 

Class notes

Prologue: Charting the Heavens

The Copernican Revolution (1) (2) (3)

Light and Matter

The Telescopes

Interplanetary Matter

The Earth and the Moon

 

 

The Solar System

Planet’s atmospheres

Planet’s surfaces

The Moons & Rings

The Sun

Measuring the Stars

The Interstellar Matter

Stellar Evolution

The Milky Way

 

 

Homework

HW1         HW6

HW2         HW7

HW3         HW8

HW4         HW-9

HW5         HW-10

 

Office hours-  Monday   3:00 - 4:00 PM

                      Tuesday  1:00 - 2:00 PM or by appointment

Office  : B025A ( Fisher basement)

 

Cool links

Planet’s positions today

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Star map for Houghton

A Window to the Universe

 

Image credits : NASA/Hubble Gallary