Radiation astronomy/Courses/Principles/Syllabus/Spring
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Gamma rays are emitted during radioactive decay processes such as those occurring in nuclear explosions. Credit: National Nuclear Security Administration, USA.
For those wishing to take a formally structured undergraduate university semester-length course, this is the Spring offering for principles of radiation astronomy. Resource titles here are conventional although the actual resource may appear slightly different. For example, X-ray astronomy has been changed to Radiation astronomy/X-rays which is more in line with Wikiversity resource naming conventions. Re-directs will automatically take you to each resource.
General course details may be found at the Syllabus.
January 4, 2016, Monday
January 5, 2016, Tuesday
January 6, 2016, Wednesday
January 7, 2016, Thursday
- Problem set: Energy phantoms, solutions including work steps due on January 14, 2016.
January 8, 2016, Friday
January 11, 2016, Monday
January 12, 2016, Tuesday
January 13, 2016, Wednesday
January 14, 2016, Thursday
January 15, 2016, Friday
January 18, 2016, Monday
January 19, 2016, Tuesday
- Laboratory: Cratering, report is due on January 26, 2016.
January 20, 2016, Wednesday
January 21, 2016, Thursday
January 22, 2016, Friday
January 25, 2016, Monday
January 26, 2016, Tuesday
January 27, 2016, Wednesday
January 28, 2016, Thursday
January 29, 2016, Friday
February 1, 2016, Monday
February 2, 2016, Tuesday
February 3, 2016, Wednesday
February 4, 2016, Thursday
February 5, 2016, Friday
February 8, 2016, Monday
February 9, 2016, Tuesday
- Hourly: Principles of radiation astronomy/Hourly 1
C 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 10, 2016, Wednesday
February 11, 2016, Thursday
February 12, 2016, Friday
February 15, 2016, Monday
February 16, 2016, Tuesday
- Laboratory: Galaxies
, report is due on February 23, 2016.
February 17, 2016, Wednesday
February 18, 2016, Thursday
- Problem set: Unusual units , solutions including work steps due on February 25, 2016.
February 19, 2016, Friday
February 22, 2016, Monday
February 23, 2016, Tuesday
February 24, 2016, Wednesday
February 25, 2016, Thursday
February 26, 2016, Friday
February 29, 2016, Monday
March 1, 2016, 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.
March 2, 2016, Wednesday
March 3, 2016, Thursday
March 4, 2016, Friday
March 7, 2016, Monday
March 8, 2016, Tuesday
- Laboratory: Meteorites
, report is due on March 15, 2016.
March 9, 2016, Wednesday
March 10, 2016, Thursday
- Problem set: Cosmic circuits , solutions including work steps due on March 17, 2016.
March 11, 2016, Friday
March 14, 2016, Monday
March 15, 2016, Tuesday
March 16, 2016, Wednesday
March 17, 2016, Thursday
- Problem set: Column densities , solutions including work steps due on March 24, 2016.
March 18, 2016, Friday
March 21, 2016, Monday
March 22, 2016, Tuesday
March 23, 2016, Wednesday
March 24, 2016, Thursday
- Problem set: Spectrographs , solutions including work steps due on March 31, 2016.
March 25, 2016, Friday
March 28, 2016, Monday
March 29, 2016, Tuesday
March 30, 2016, Wednesday
March 31, 2016, Thursday
- Problem set: Planck's equation , solutions including work steps due on April 7, 2016.
April 1, 2016, Friday
April 4, 2016, Monday
April 5, 2016, Tuesday
April 6, 2016, Wednesday
April 7, 2016, Thursday
April 8, 2016, Friday
April 11, 2016, Monday
April 12, 2016, Tuesday
April 13, 2016, Wednesday
April 14, 2016, Thursday
- Problem set: Radiation dosage , solutions including work steps due on April 21, 2016.
April 15, 2016, Friday
April 18, 2016, Monday
April 19, 2016, Tuesday
April 20, 2016, Wednesday
April 21, 2016, Thursday
- Problem set: Star jumping , solutions including work steps due on April 28, 2016.
April 22, 2016, Friday
April 26, 2016, Tuesday
- Hourly: Principles of radiation astronomy/Hourly 3 C 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.
May 8, 2016, Friday
Alternate examinations that may be used by your college or university for credit (and a grade) in this course will be available from Wikiversity by courier for closed, proctored session testing of proficiency.
Hypothesis:
- Courses offered in the Spring have higher student participation than ones offered in the Fall.
This is an image of a Lewis rat. Credit: Charles River Laboratories.
The findings demonstrate a statistically systematic change from the status quo or the control group.
“In the design of experiments, treatments [or special properties or characteristics] are applied to [or observed in] experimental units in the treatment group(s).[1] In comparative experiments, members of the complementary group, the control group, receive either no treatment or a standard treatment.[2]"[3]
Def. a “short and/or incomplete realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility"[4] is called a proof of concept.
Def. evidence that demonstrates that a concept is possible is called proof of concept.
The proof-of-concept structure consists of
- background,
- procedures,
- findings, and
- interpretation.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Klaus Hinkelmann, Oscar Kempthorne (2008). Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume I: Introduction to Experimental Design (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-72756-9. http://books.google.com/?id=T3wWj2kVYZgC&printsec=frontcover.
- ↑ R. A. Bailey (2008). Design of comparative experiments. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68357-9. http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521683579.
- ↑ "Treatment and control groups, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. May 18, 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
- ↑ "proof of concept, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. November 10, 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
- ↑ Ginger Lehrman and Ian B Hogue, Sarah Palmer, Cheryl Jennings, Celsa A Spina, Ann Wiegand, Alan L Landay, Robert W Coombs, Douglas D Richman, John W Mellors, John M Coffin, Ronald J Bosch, David M Margolis (August 13, 2005). "Depletion of latent HIV-1 infection in vivo: a proof-of-concept study". Lancet 366 (9485): 549-55. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67098-5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894952/. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
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