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Aurorae are mostly caused by energetic electrons precipitating into the atmosphere. Credit: Samuel Blanc.

While this course may be taken in any order by each student, it may also be taken during a specific calendar period comparable to a university semester such as from January through May (Spring) or August through December (Fall).

This is a general syllabus for the course. Items under development for the course appear below. For specifics on the course content, see principles of radiation astronomy. For specifics per semester, check the appropriate term Spring or Fall.

Course registration

Anyone may enjoy learning by doing with any of the resources of this course at any time. No registration is required. Questions and comments are welcome on any of the course's resource "Discuss" pages. Just click on the "Add topic" button.

Those taking the course for possible credit at their home college or university may register on this resource's "Discuss" page by entering 4 ~s after any comment they care to leave indicating their intent. This will provide their username account here at Wikiversity.

Enjoy learning by doing!

Completion levels

This course is dynamic, but may also be taken as a semester offering by Wikiversity, see the Next course offering for the next formal class period. The current one started January 4, 2016 and ended May 8, 2016.

Each component resource may have a level of completion icon following it based on ≥ 100 kb equals 100 %, or 100 questions is 100 %, the midterm and final are based on 300 questions equals 100 %:

  1. This resource is a stub, which means that pretty well nothing has been done yet. 0-5%.
  2. This resource is just getting off the ground. Please feel welcome to help! 6-15%.
  3. Been started, but most of the work is still to be done - 16-30%.
  4. About halfway there. You may help to clarify and expand it - 31-45%.
  5. Almost complete, but you can help make it more thorough - 46-60%.
  6. Ready for testing by learners and teachers. Please begin! 61-75%.
  7. This resource is considered to be ready for use - 76-90%. R
  8. This resource has reached a high level of completion - 91-100%. C

Those resources such as the lectures, problem sets, or laboratories already at 100 % may no longer have a completion icon.

Reports

The content of each report consists of each students efforts with each laboratory, lesson, or activity where a report is required or requested. Results are included in the lesson page.

For structure of each report, follow the pattern used with manuscripts submitted for refereed journal submission:

  1. title,
  2. author line,
  3. abstract - usually written after the rest of the report is finished, describe briefly what you did,
  4. introduction - describe what is being examined or studied in your own words or quote the laboratory or lesson, your own words are preferred,
  5. experimentation - what you did to accomplish the assignment,
  6. discussion - describe the applicability and shortcomings of your effort, objectivity is important, also include shortcomings of the assignment,
  7. conclusion - what astronomical conclusion if any have you arrived at.

For any report you generate, you can receive review of your efforts by placing a copy of your report as a subpage of your user page, eg, Your:Userpage/Your Report Title, leaving a note on this page's Discuss, or on the resource's "Discuss" page. If you wish to receive review but do not wish to release your efforts into Wikiversity, you may use the Wikiversity email to send me a copy. Your efforts are copyrighted. If your efforts indicate original effort, you may wish to enter them into consideration for free release at the Wikiversity Journals.

Changes

  1. On the date here in the syllabus that a resource for the course is assigned, the material remains unchanged until the course is over. Any changes to a resource while the course is in progress do not affect material the student is responsible for knowing.

Next course offering

The next offering of the full semester course begins on Monday, August 27, 2018, and runs into December 2018. This offering may be found at principles of radiation astronomy/Syllabus/Fall.

The following sections are an experimental form of the course under development for the Spring of 2019, or later.

Lectures under development

  • Accelerations.
  • Acoustical astronomy.
  • Diffractions.
  • Distillations.
  • Refractions.
  • Reflections.
  • Scatterings.
  • Spallations.
  • Spectrometers.
  • Transductions.
  • Transformations.
  • Transmutations.
  • Wavelength shifts.

January 2, 2017, Monday

  • Lecture: Radiation astronomy.

January 3, 2017, Tuesday

  • Quiz section lecture: Radiation.

January 7, 2015, Wednesday

  • Lecture: Intensity astronomy .

January 8, 2015, Thursday

  • Problem set: Energy phantoms, solutions including work steps due on January 15, 2015.

January 9, 2015, Friday

  • Lecture: Meteor astronomy.

January 12, 2015, Monday

  • Lecture: Cosmic radiation astronomy.

January 13, 2015, Tuesday

January 14, 2015, Wednesday

January 15, 2015, Thursday

  • Quiz: Neutrals astronomy/Quiz .

January 16, 2015, Friday

January 19, 2015, Monday

  • Lecture: Neutron astronomy.

January 20, 2015, Tuesday

  • Laboratory: Cratering, report is due on January 27, 2015.
  • Quiz section lecture: Crater astronomy.

January 21, 2015, Wednesday

January 22, 2015, Thursday

  • Quiz: Crater astronomy/Quiz.

January 23, 2015, Friday

January 26, 2015, Monday

January 27, 2015, Tuesday

  • Laboratory: Analytical astronomy , report is due on February 3, 2015.
  • Quiz section lecture: First astronomical source.

January 28, 2015, Wednesday

January 29, 2015, Thursday

  • Quiz: First astronomical source/Quiz.

January 30, 2015, Friday

February 2, 2015, Monday

February 3, 2015, Tuesday

  • Quiz section lecture: First astronomical X-ray source.

February 4, 2015, Wednesday

February 5, 2015, Thursday

February 6, 2015, Friday

February 9, 2015, Monday

February 10, 2015, Tuesday

  • Hourly: Principles of radiation astronomy/Hourly 1 for lectures 1-16. Questions may include quiz section lectures, lessons, problem sets, and laboratories up to today but not today's laboratory or quiz section lecture.

February 11, 2015, Wednesday

February 12, 2015, Thursday

February 13, 2015, Friday

February 16, 2015, Monday

February 17, 2015, Tuesday

  • Laboratory: Galaxies, report is due on February 24, 2015.

February 18, 2015, Wednesday

February 19, 2015, Thursday

  • Problem set: Unusual units, solutions including work steps due on February 26, 2015.

February 20, 2015, Friday

February 23, 2015, Monday

February 24, 2015, Tuesday

  • Quiz section lecture: Interplanetary medium.

February 25, 2015, Wednesday

February 26, 2015, Thursday

February 27, 2015, Friday

March 2, 2015, Monday

March 3, 2015, Tuesday

This quiz is for lectures up through and including violet astronomy (1-24), the prior weeks laboratories, quiz section lectures from the course beginning through and including interplanetary medium, lessons and problem sets through and including those due previously to today.

  • Quiz section lecture: interstellar medium.

March 4, 2015, Wednesday

March 5, 2015, Thursday

March 6, 2015, Friday

March 9, 2015, Monday

March 10, 2015, Tuesday

  • Laboratory: Meteorites, report is due on March 17, 2015.

March 11, 2015, Wednesday

March 12, 2015, Thursday

  • Problem set: Cosmic circuits, solutions including work steps due on March 19, 2015.

March 13, 2015, Friday

March 16, 2015, Monday

March 17, 2015, Tuesday

March 18, 2015, Wednesday

March 19, 2015, Thursday

  • Problem set: Column densities, solutions including work steps due on March 26, 2015.

March 20, 2015, Friday

  • Lecture: Background astronomy.

March 23, 2015, Monday

  • Lecture: Radiation detectors.

March 24, 2015, Tuesday

  • Quiz: Background astronomy/Quiz.

March 25, 2015, Wednesday

  • Lecture: Radiation telescopes.

March 26, 2015, Thursday

  • Problem set: Spectrographs, solutions including work steps due on April 2, 2015.

March 27, 2015, Friday

  • Lecture: Radiation satellites.

March 30, 2015, Monday

March 31, 2015, Tuesday

April 1, 2015, Wednesday

  • Lecture: Balloons for astronomy .

April 2, 2015, Thursday

  • Quiz: Standard candles/Quiz.

April 3, 2015, Friday

  • Lecture: Sounding rockets for astronomy .

April 6, 2015, Monday

  • Lecture: Airborne astronomy.

April 7, 2015, Tuesday

  • Quiz: Airborne astronomy/Quiz .

April 8, 2015, Wednesday

April 9, 2015, Thursday

  • Quiz: Earth-orbit astronomy/Quiz .

April 10, 2015, Friday

  • Lecture: Synchronous-orbit astronomy .

April 13, 2015, Monday

  • Lecture: Orbital-platform astronomy .

April 14, 2015, Tuesday

  • Quiz: Synchronous-orbit astronomy/Quiz .
  • Quiz: Orbital-platform astronomy/Quiz .

April 15, 2015, Wednesday

April 16, 2015, Thursday

  • Problem set: Radiation dosage, solutions including work steps due on April 23, 2015.
  • Quiz: Heliocentric astronomy/Quiz .

April 17, 2015, Friday

April 20, 2015, Monday

  • Lecture: Standard-candles astronomy .

November 29, 2016, Tuesday

  • Quiz section lecture: X-ray trigonometric parallax.

April 22, 2015, Wednesday

  • Lecture: Theoretical radiation astronomy.

April 23, 2015, Thursday

  • Problem set: Star jumping, solutions including work steps due on April 30, 2015.

April 24, 2015, Friday

  • Lecture: Trigonometric-parallax astronomy.

April 27, 2015, Monday

April 28, 2015, Tuesday

  • Quiz: Trigonometric-parallax astronomy/Quiz.
  • Hourly: Principles of radiation astronomy/Hourly 3 for lectures 33-48, including quiz section lectures, lessons (except the last one), problem sets (except the last one), and laboratories not included in the first two hourlies.

April 29, 2015, Wednesday

April 30, 2015, Thursday

May 1, 2015, Friday

May 8, 2015, Friday

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Hypotheses

  1. Repetition through learning by doing improves a student's knowledge retention and test-taking skills.

See also

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