Astronomy college course

• This resource is currently being used in Wright_State_University_Lake_Campus/Phy1060-2016-1^[1]
• This resource is less than one year from being suitable for in any introductory college course, complete with 4 exams, writing assignments, and a final exam.^[2]
• Labs are also available But most are under construction (and badly in need of improvement).
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• The number after dash "-" tells you how many are on the test:Quiz 1-3 means 3 questions are randomly selected from Quiz 1

Unit 1: Introduction to astronomy

Click inside image for explanation on Commons.

• Unit 1 study guide ... also in pdf form collects all four pertaining to this unit.

• How big is everything?

• Wikipedia:Astronomy (reading)

• Two Quizzes on w:Astronomy: WP Astronomy Quiz 1     ...and WP Astronomy Quiz 2

• Discussion of WP:Astronomy (under construction)    ... Also, should we bring Wikipedia:Astronomy to Wikiversity?

• Sidereus Nuncius (reading)     ...(discussion) ... and Quiz

• Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho systems (reading) ... and Quiz

• Optional: How do we know the Earth doesn't move? Also optional is Youtube's "Trombone Silliness"

• Lunar Phases (reading)     Also, Learn to make this drawing before the exam ... and Easy quiz

Unit 2: The Renaissance and the solar system

(the number after the dash -# indicate the number of questions from each quiz on the test)

• Unit 2 study guide ... also in pdf form collects all four pertaining to this unit.

• Lunar Phases (reading)     Also, Learn to make this drawing before the exam ...and Harder quiz-6

• Apparent retrograde motion (reading) ... and Quiz-5

• Kepler and Newton (reading) and Quiz-7

• Wikipedia: Solar System and Quiz#1-8 and Quiz#2-5 ... and this optional discussion    

• Solar system scale model activity

• Mercury and Quiz-4

Unit 3: Planets

• Unit 3 study guide pdf file

• Planetary science and quiz-2

• Volcanoes on Venus and Venus and Venus and quiz-6

• Mars and quiz-5

• Why planets lose their atmospheres and quiz-4

• Galilean moons of Jupiter and quiz-4

• Miranda and Titan and quiz-4

• Jupiter and quiz-7

• Pluto and planetary mass and Pluto and quiz-3

Unit 4: Stars and beyond

• Unit 4 study guide pdf file

• Introduction to stellar measurements and quiz-7 and equations for this quiz

• Star and quiz-8

• Star cluster and quiz-8

• Sizes of white dwarfs, neutron stars, quasars and quiz-12

Final Exam

The final exam is cumulative and consists of one question from most (but not all) of the quizzes already encountered.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Someday we need to make the dashboard at Wright State University Lake Campus/Phy1060-2016-1 available. Perhaps this could be done most quickly by rewriting the source code in an open source language like Python (currently Matlab/Excel are used).
2. ↑ This page contains a collection of readings from Wikiversity and Wikipedia, sample exams for classroom use, and the bank of questions from which these exams were constructed that serves as a very student-friendly "study guide" for each exam. Instructors may obtain multiple versions of these exams for classroom use by leaving a message at User_talk:Guy_vandegrift. The "dashboard" at Wright_State_University_Lake_Campus/Phy1060-2016-1 can help the instructor supervise the students' improvement of the course by developing quiz questions (with full explanations), labs, and by editing the reading materials. With all this work done by Wikiversity, instructors will have time focusing on helping the students learn.

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