Astronomy (return to www.fieldstudy.com home)

Erin O'Connor  (erin@fieldstudy.com) 
805-922-6966 x3496  (class schedule & office hours, semester calendar & finals)
Physics, Astronomy, and Integrated Physical Sciences Instructor

Course descriptions and meeting times:
(Click here for Syllabus Viewing Instructions, click here for assistance with Blackboard.)

• Astronomy 100  (MW 1:00 - 2:30 pm, Syllabus)
  Introductory Survey of Astronomy 
  (sun, moon, tides, planets, spectra, nucleosynthesis, relativity, cosmology)
  • Do you know your constellations? Use your star chart to play this constellation game.  
  • Click here to view pictures of the Alabama Meteor of 1954 (viewer discretion advised...)
  • Click here to view Powers of 10, like the video we saw in class.
  • Check out this night picture of earth from space, upcoming eclipses.
  • Student web pages, Mars Terraforming, Earth Auroras, Aurora Borialis. 
  • Cool video clips, Uranus Rotation, Uranus Magnetosphere, Miranda, Black Hole, Galaxy Collision. 
  • Listen to the Galaxy Song! Tom Lerher's Chemical Elements Song! Orsen Wells' War of the Worlds!
  • Hubble Space Telescope!

• Astronomy 110 (Tu 2:00 - 5:00 pm, Syllabus)
  Introduction to Relativity and Cosmology 
  (white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, quasars, and string theory)
  • Click here to access UCSB ITP Conference Talks.
  • Click here to view a Big Bang animation. 
  • Student web pages, Birth of a Star, Black Holes and Antimatter. 

• Physical Science Integrated Field Study Courses (with telescope observations in the field)
  (For more information, pictures, and student accounts, return to www.fieldstudy.com)
  • Phys Sci 159 Eastern Sierra Nevada (2 units, 5 days, every fall semester in mid-October)
  • Phys Sci 159 Death Valley (2 units, 5 days, every spring semester in mid-April)
  • Phys Sci 159 - Colorado Plateau (5 units, 2 weeks, every other year the first two weeks of June)

Blackboard System:

• Click here to access the AHC Blackboard System: http://hancock-online.net/
  (Blackboard instructions, new password, technical difficulties.)

Physical Science & Engineering Club:

• Check out photos and activities from this past semester:
  http://www.fieldstudy.com/PhysClub/default.htm

Central Coast Classroom-Community Network:

• CCCCN maintains an Internship network, and coordinates several community programs, including Service Learning, CalWORKS, and Cooperative Education.  http://www.service-net.org/ahc.cfm
• Featured Internships:
  --- One week long summer internships at Cal Poly's MEEI (Mechanical Engineering Energy Institute).
  --- Summer Internship Program at UCSB's Material Research Laboratory.
  --- Summer Internship Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs