ABOUT THE BOOKS

You will have access to five sources of written material in this class.

The first is a commercial text called The Cosmic Perspective by Bennett, Donahue, Schneider and Voit. I THIS IS NOT REQUIRED. I am includig it here for those of you who would like to buy a good astronomy reference book.

The second source is material I wrote in chapter form for the course. Clicking on the link provided (Cosmology, Stellar Evolution and Relativity chapters) will take you to a Web page where those essays are provided in pdf form. These are also not required. I am including them, again, for those of you who are inclined to look at "extra" material.

The third source are scanned articles. Because they are copywrited materials, I am putting them in a "secret" folder--one that requires a password. More about this when the Tech guys get the details worked out.

The fourth source will come from selected chapters out of 13 Things That Don't Make Sense (look on the calendar for more info on that).

Lastly, there will the occasional lab procedures provided for this class, but that material will be handed out in loose-leaf form in class and there will be no formal lab write-up for these exercises.