Study Guides
It will be to your advantage to have done the assigned reading before coming to class, but you are not required to have done so.
To take full advantage of the guides, you should print out a hardcopy of each guide before the lecture and bring it to class with you. Plan to annotate the guides with your own notes during class. Most guides are in HTML format for easiest retrieval by browser over the Web. For PDF material you will need Adobe reader or the equivalent| The guides are designed to be displayed in a window with an aspect ratio matching standard printer paper in "portrait" orientation: height:width = 4:3. |
Making hardcopies:
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Browsers are notoriously variable in the protocols
used to convert web pages to hardcopies. Most guides have dark text
on a light background for best results as hardcopies, but colored text
may not be satisfactorily printed from your browser. If you have
trouble making hardcopies, try using the "Print Preview" feature of
your browser to see what your print will look like. You can usually
adjust printing parameters if it's not right.
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Links to other useful information or pertinent illustrations are
included on the guides and also on the
ASTR 1210 Web
Links page.
You are encouraged to use these to make the subject matter more
interesting or clear...but you are not expected to know any of
this additional material unless it is discussed in class or listed
as an assignment on a study guide.
Some of the material shown during classes is also posted here in the form of PowerPoint files. Each contains a superset of the slides used in a given class meeting and is provided more as a resource for other teachers rather than as a self-contained reproduction of the actual presentation.
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[There is no study guide for the first class meeting.]
Study Guide 1: Scientific Discovery & the Scale of
the Universe
Study Guide 2: Cosmic History
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Cosmic History (PPTX)
Supplement I: Powers of Ten (PDF)
Cosmic History: A Brief Narrative (Optional)
The Hubble Deep Fields (Optional)
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