SELECTED ASTRONOMY READINGS/EXCERPTS and VIDEO CLIPS:

• Stephen Hawkings book A Brief History of Time (on line in pdf format)
  This is the book the class is using. 

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WEEKLY ASSIGNED READINGS (it's important that you read these):

• Last Three Minutes
  On Thermodynamic Heat Death and Olbers Paradox
• First Three Minutes
  The "Big Bang" Inflationary Cosmological Model
  • History of Univ Graphic
• Flatland Readings (short summary of book)
  • Flatland (entire text of the book)
  • Flatland trailor
  • VIDEO: Imagining Ten Dimensions
• Richard Feynman's QED
  • Dr. Quantum Double Slit Experiment
  • Warp Drive
• Thermodynamics of Black Holes (Readings)
  • MUSIC VIDEO:  String Theory set to Queeen!
  • Article on real 2-D discovery (read near bottom where it says "IN 2004")
• Bryan Green's Elegant Universe
• Rare Earth Hypothesis
  • Drake Eq
  • Planets
• Sacred Depths of Nature
• Future of Computing - The Singularity
• Einstein's views on God
• Stephen Hawking Desert Island Discs
• Glossary of Readings from Hawking Book

ADVANCED TOPICS:

• Special Relativity
• General Relativity
  • Recent article on Gravity Probe B

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• INTERNET SOURCES:  10 C's for Evaluating Internet Sources
  --Dihidrogen Monoxide
  --Dehidrated Dihidrogen Monoxide one
  --Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
  --Pregnant Man

Silly Links:  Rap Einstein vs Hawkings, Rap Newton vs Bill Nei, Rap Tesla vs Edison, Spoof JPL Video,

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LECTURES and VIDEOS:

• Feinman Lectures (all of them)

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SOME PAST QUIZZES TO STUDY FROM:

• 9/8/14
• 9/17/14
• 9/24/14
• 9/29/14
• 10/13/14