Tutorials for Astronomy

• click practice
• multi-media demo
• St. Benedict and solar eclpses?
• Why Study Astronomy?
• Piagetian-based diagnostic quizzes
  1. A pound of Cliff's Brain?
  2. Alien Beasts!
  3. Martian Moons
• Where is the SJU Observatory?
• Sky weather prediction for SJU Observatory
• From Astronomical Society of the Pacific:
  1. Constellation FAQ
  2. The 88 Constellations: Table Form
  3. The 88 Constellations: PRE form
• Spherical astronomy terms
• tutorial: sky vocabulary
• Quiz on sky terms
• tutorial & quiz: sky map
• tutorial & quiz: star finder
• tutorial & quiz: SC001 star map
• tutorial & quiz: SC002 star map
• compare: SC and Sky Map
• Simon Newcomb on the Revolution of the Earth round the Sun
• tutorial: latitude & your sky
• Name These Moons Quiz
• Moon Quiz
• Star Finder for Australia
• Spectra Quiz I (Blackbody)
• Spectra Quiz II (Spectrometer)
• Moon Rise & Set
• Sun Rise, Sun Set, etc.

spring 2012 syllabus + lab info lectures.mp4 2012 home lab manual Home Lab scans: 1 2 grading system

• old Astro-212 exam 1 (pdf format)
• old Astro-211 exam 1 (pdf format)

• Constellations to know
• old Astro-212 exam 2 (pdf format)
• old Astro-211 exam 2 (pdf format)

• Stars to know
• old Astro-212 exam 3 (pdf format)
• old Astro-211 exam 3 (pdf format)

Tutorials for Astrophysics

• Orbital Elements & Calculations
• 3-body Problem: an example by movie