Your source for all manner of information about the course.
Given by Prof. Douglas Kurtze,

Office: South Engineering 310
Phone: (23)1-7048
E-mail: kurtze@plains.nodak.edu

What's New on this page (as of 12/10/96)

General Information about the Course

• The syllabus
• Where you can find things posted
• How to get the demonstration programs used in lecture
• About the lab (Updated Wednesday, September 11)

News from Space

• Life on Mars (that is, the recent announcement that a meteorite which originated on Mars contains what appears to be 3.6-billion-year-old fossilized bacteria)
  

Announcements

• Physics colloquium about galaxy evolution on Wednesday, Nov. 6.
• Lunar eclipse on the night of Thursday, Sept. 26.
• First test in class on Wednesday, Oct. 4.
• Second test in class on Wednesday, Nov. 6.
• Third test in class on Wednesday, Dec. 4.
• Final exam on Monday, Dec. 16.

Homework assignments

• Assignment 1, due Sept. 4.
• Assignment 2, due Sept. 11.
• Assignment 3, due Sept. 18.
• Assignment 4, due Sept. 25.
• Assignment 5, due Oct. 16.
• Assignment 6, due Oct. 30.
• Assignment 7, due Nov. 20.
• Assignment 8, due Nov. 25.
• Assignment 9, due Dec. 9 -- the last one!

Supplementary notes

• Inferences from the Night Sky, which we will use for the first three weeks of the course. This version doesn't have figures yet, but I'll get them included soon (I hope!).

Sample test problems

• Sample problems from last year's first test -- with links to the answers.
• Sample problems from last year's second test -- with links to the answers.

Links to ...

• The NDSU home page
  
• The NDSU Physics Department home page
  
• The textbook's home page (yes, it has one too), which has pictures, videos, and software relating to a few of the book's chapters
• Here are two sources of information about the solar system. Either will tell you much more than you will need for this course! The Nine Planets, Bill Arnett's tour of the solar system, is much more than its name suggests -- it also has information on moons, asteroids, comets, and lots more. Views of the Solar System, maintained by Calvin Hamilton at Los Alamos, is similar. Many of the images were processed by the author himself. Both of these sites have lots of graphics, which means that they can be rather slow.
• The Astronomy Picture of the Day
  
• Space Telescope Science Institute's public information page, including pictures and press releases from the Hubble Space Telescope
  
• Sky Publishing, the outfit that puts out Sky and Telescope magazine
• AstroWeb, a collection of links to various astronomy resources, and a fine place to start looking for things.
• NASA is very big and somewhat difficult to find things in, but here is its home page