Lectures

Power Point Presentations

Lecture 1 (1/21) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 2 (1/26) (PPT) (PDF)

The applets:
Phases of the Moon (htm and swf)
Cause of lunar phases (htm and swf)
Moon phases and time of day (htm and swf)
Cause of eclipses: tool (htm and swf) animation (htm and swf)

Lecture 3 (1/28) (PPT) (PDF)

The applets:

Evolution of a total solar eclipses (htm and swf)

Partial vs. total solar eclipses (htm and swf)

Annular vs. total solar eclipses (htm and swf)

Lunar eclipses (htm and swf)

Tilt of Moon's orbit relative to ecliptic (htm and swf)

Lecture 4 (2/2) (PPT) (PDF)

The applets:

Solar altitude with respect to latitude and season (htm and swf)

Flashlight beams (htm and swf)

Lecture 5 (2/4) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 6 (2/9) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 7 (2/11) (PPT) (PDF)

The applets:

Equant

Ptolemy

Copernicus: The Retrograde Motion of Mars

Retrograde motion of Jupiter and Saturn

Galileo sunspots

Lecture 8 (2/16) (PPT) (PDF)

The applets:

Eccentricity and Semi-major Axis of an Ellipse (htm and swf)

Kepler's 2nd Law: Velocity Inversely Proportional to Orbital Radius (htm and swf)

Lecture 9 (2/18) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 10 (2/23) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 11 (2/25) (PPT) (PDF)

Relationship Between Cannonball's Mass & Orbital Trajectory (htm and swf)

Lecture 12 (3/1) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 13 (3/3) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 14 (3/8) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 15 (3/10) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 16 (3/22) (PPT) (PDF)
Discussion Section (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 17 (3/24) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 18 (3/29) (PPT) (PDF)

Collapse of the Solar Nebula (htm and swf)

Lecture 19 (3/31) (PPT) (PDF)

Matthew Bate's Animations

Lecture 20 (4/5) (PPT) (PDF)

Movies:

Lecture 21 (4/7) (PPT)
Lecture 22 (4/12) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 23 (4/14) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 24 (4/19) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 25 (4/21) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 26 (4/26) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 27 (4/28) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 28 (5/3) (PPT) (PDF)
Lecture 29 (5/5) (PPT) (PDF)

Determining the Mass and Orbital Radius of a Planet by Fitting Data (htm and swf)