Astronomy & Modern Physics Honors
2nd Semester
Project Check-in Dates
Project Grade Sheet
Bonus Projects
Extrasolar Planets
Brown Dwarf Stars
Unit 3 Bonus Assignment Links
UNL Simulation
Reading #1: Kepler's Laws
Reading #2: Newton & Planetary Motion
Unit 6: Evolution of Stars
Binary Stars & Stellar Mass
Eclipsing Binary Simulation
Readings
Student Packet Solutions
JPL Binary Stars (solution)
The Interstellar Medium
Life and Death of a Star Video
Peering Through the Dust
Finding What We Can't See Enrichment Activity
Instructional Packet
Net-Logo Simulation
Stellar Evolution
Unit Homework #4 (solution)
Main Sequence Stars - Notes
Crash Course Astronomy - Low Mass Stars
Unit Homework #5 (solution)
Star Clusters - Notes
Unit Homework #6 (solution)
Variable Stars - Notes
Unit Homework #7 (solutions)
Unit 5: Luminosity & the H-R Diagram
Unit Assignment List
Star Distances
The Parsec JPL (key)
Brightness & Luminosity
The H-R Diagram
Unit Review
Unit 4: Color & Spectroscopic Observations
Black Body Radiation & Wien's Law
The Doppler Effect
SDSS Spectral Types
Unit 3: The Historical Development of the Heliocentric Model
Unit 3 Assignment List
Part 1: The Origins of Modern Astronomy
Part 2: Kepler's Laws, Newton & Gravity
Homework Assignment (key)
JPL Kepler's Laws Worksheets
Kepler's Laws Simulation
Part 3: Kepler & Newton's Mathematics
Unit 2: The Structure & Observation of the Celestial Sphere
Part 1: Hear & Now
Homework Assignment (solutions)
Astronomical Distances Worksheet (solutions)
Astronomy Conversions (solutions)
Crash Course Astronomy - Distances
Part 2: A User's Guide to the Sky
Textbook Chapter 2 Notes
solution
Reading a Star Chart
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
Position (key)
Motion (key)
Star Charts (key)
Unit 1: Using Astronomical Equipment
General Materials
Syllabus & Homework Assignments
Invisible Universe Revealed
Telescopes
Unit 7: Stellar Demise
Unit Assignment List
Unit Vocabulary Card List
High Mass Stars
Unit Homework #2 (solution)
Star in a Box Simulation
Ms. Ye's N-body Simulation Tutorial
*Written Solutions
Unit 10: Cosmology - Our Universe
Unit Assignment List
Crash Course Astronomy
Unit 9: The Milky Way - Our Galaxy
Unit Assignment List
NASA JPL Activities
The Milky Way Galaxy
solution
solution
Galaxies
Looking at Distant Objects
