Stars/Sun/Astronomy/Course

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This is a screenshot of the Sun. Credit: Runar Thorvaldsen and Nikolang.

The objective is to provide students with a dynamic course focused on the Sun. At the end of the course, a student should have a well-rounded knowledge of the radiation, and observational and theoretical astronomy of the Sun.

The course is built upon the ongoing research performed by astronomers around the world and in the not so empty space above the Earth's atmosphere.

The course material is layered from a secondary to a university or tertiary level, topped off with an introduction to research, some of which is here at Wikiversity.

The general subject area is astronomy. But, this includes knowledge from physics, chemistry, geography, history, and other subjects.

Prerequisites

Although a working knowledge of calculus and physics is beneficial, most of the concepts presented only require algebra. Additional learning resources where the student may increase their background knowledge while progressing through the course are provided.

Completion levels

This course is dynamic, but may also be taken as a semester offering by Wikiversity, see the syllabus near the bottom of this page for the next formal class period.

Each component resource has 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

Lectures

For a sixteen-week course, forty-eight lectures are needed. But, this is an advanced and specialized course so the number of lectures may vary.

  1. Solar astronomy
  2. Solar binary
  3. Coronal clouds
  4. Gaseous-object astronomy
  5. Heliognosy
  6. Heliogony
  7. Heliography
  8. Heliology
  9. Heliometry
  10. Heliophysics
  11. Heliosphere
  12. Magnetohydrodynamics
  13. Continua
  14. Emissions
  15. Stark broadening
  16. Doppler broadening
  17. Absorptions
  18. Negative absorptions
  19. Positive absorptions
  20. Bands
  21. Solar meteors
  22. Solar particles
  23. Solar cosmic rays
  24. Solar neutrals
  25. Solar subatomics
  26. Solar alphas
  27. Solar baryons
  28. Solar hadrons
  29. Solar neutrons
  30. Solar protons
  31. Solar mesons
  32. Solar beta particles
  33. Solar electrons
  34. Solar positrons
  35. Solar tauons
  36. Solar muons
  37. Solar neutrinos
  38. Solar electromagnetics
  39. Solar gamma rays
  40. Solar X-rays
  41. Solar ultraviolets
  42. Solar violets
  43. Solar blues
  44. Solar cyans
  45. Solar greens
  46. Solar yellows
  47. Solar oranges
  48. Solar reds
  49. Solar infrareds
  50. Solar microwaves
  51. Solar radios
  52. Solar submillimeters
  53. Solar superluminals
  54. Standard solar model
  55. Solar fission
  56. Solar-forming region
  57. Sun
  58. Solar cycles
  59. Solar active regions
  60. Solar sciences
  61. Solar surface fusions
  62. Solar nucleosynthesis

Quizzes

Each lecture has an associated quiz which is listed here.

Two-three lengthier exams often referred to as 'hourlies' (may take an hour to work through at a timed pace), a mid-term exam which is all-encompassing for the first half, and a final exam over the entire course material may be offered. The examinations are designed to be taken iteratively as many times as the student desires to achieve a thorough working knowledge of the subject.

Laboratories

  1. Locating the Sun
  2. Neutrinos from the Sun
  3. X-ray classification of a star

Research

Hypothesis:

  1. The Sun may still have an iron, or iron-nickel, core.

Control groups

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]

Proof of concept

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

  1. background,
  2. procedures,
  3. findings, and
  4. interpretation.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Treatment and control groups, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. May 18, 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
  4. ↑ "proof of concept, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. November 10, 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
  5. ↑ 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.

External links

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Development status: this resource is experimental in nature.
Educational level: this is a research resource.
Resource type: this resource is a course.
Subject classification: this is an astronomy resource.
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