PCS 181 Lecture Notes - Milky Way, The Demon-Haunted World, Dark Matter Halo
17 Mar 2013
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This site also has pages giving angular momentum examples, a quick mathematics review, improving study skills, astronomy tables, and astronomy terms. All of the line drawings were done with create on my old next machine or with. Freehand on a wintel laptop and macintosh at home. The line art images on the screen are gif and png images. If you have comments about these notes, please email me. Some significant updates since the major 2010 revision are listed below in the chapter descriptions. There are other tweaks not listed on this homepage. Contents (chapters + descriptions): astronomy as a science and a sense of scale. I introduce astronomy"s place in science, and give a sense of the size and time scales involved. A separate section about the science-religion interface and interaction is available on this site. I take a middle road between the fundamentalists on both sides of the debate/dialogue: method for finding scientific truth.
