| ASTR110-04: Fall 2006 Laboratory Schedule | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Laboratory Exercise | Lab No. | Date | |
| Week 1: | Mathematics Review | #23 | 29 | August |
| Overview | ||||
| Review Site | ||||
| Week 2: | Lab Introduction | #1 | 06-07 | September |
| Week 3: | Surface of the Moon | #2 | 13-14 | September |
| Overview | ||||
| The Moon | ||||
| The Moons of Jupiter | ||||
| Week 4: | Kepler's Laws | #5 | 20-21 | September |
| Solar System Simulator | ||||
| Orbits of Jupiter's Moons | ||||
| Orbits of Binary Stars | ||||
| Week 5: | Measuring Distances Using Parallax | #8 | 27-28 | September |
| Parallax Simulation | ||||
| Week 6: | Comets and Meteors | #3 | 04-05 | October |
| Overview | ||||
| Comets | ||||
| Week 7: | Geology of the Terrestrial Planets | #4 | 11-12 | October |
| Processes that shape Terrestrial planets | ||||
| Week 8: | Galaxy Morphology | #15 | 18-19 | October |
| Overview | ||||
| Classifying Galaxies | ||||
| Week 9: | Optics | #9 | 25-26 | October |
| Refracting Telescopes | ||||
| Reflecting Telescopes | ||||
| Lenses | ||||
| Lens Magnification | ||||
| Week 10: | Spectroscopy | #11 | 01-02 | November |
| Overview | ||||
| The Electromagnetic Spectrum | ||||
| The Periodic Table | ||||
| Atomic Structure | ||||
| Spectral Lines | ||||
| Energy Levels | ||||
| Electric Force between Atomic Nuclei and Electrons | ||||
| Energy Levels in the Bohr Atom | ||||
| Emission and Absorption Spectra for each Element | ||||
| Blackbody Radiation (demo) | ||||
| Week 11: | The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram | #13 | 08-09 | November |
| Overview | ||||
| Background Information | ||||
| Week 12: | The H-R Diagram (HW #5, done in lab) | 15-16 | November | |
| Thanksgiving Break | ||||
| Week 13: | Hubble's Law | #18 | 29-30 | November |
| Hubble's Law I | ||||
| Hubble's Law II | ||||
| Cosmology | ||||
| Coloured Spectra for Lab | ||||
| Week 14: | Review Session | 06-07 | December | |