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UATP Strategies

[su_spoiler title=”Develop physics problems that use astronomy” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”chevron-circle” anchor=”” class=””]

  • Ghez orbits – Kepler’s laws => black hole
  • Charbonneau – exoplanets: detection & inferences
    • Doppler effect
    • light curve
    • 51 Pegasi (Amato)
  • Amato ­– 90 Antiope – double asteroid
  • Rappoport  – neutron-optical star eclipsing binary
  • distances by parallax – geometry
    • corrections for Earth’s motion,
    • Sun’s motion,
    • Galaxy’s motion
  • distances by standard candles – inverse square, extinction
  • star formation
  • nucleosynthesis

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[su_spoiler title=”Provide support material for topics” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”chevron-circle” anchor=”” class=””]Take the table of contents of a standard physics text and suggest astronomy and space science material for each physics topic.

  • conservation of momentum  —
    • slingshot orbits
    • rocketry
      • escape velocity
      • Hohmann trajectory – cons of energy
      • sling-shot
      • grand tours
  • conservation of angular momentum
    • Kepler’s laws
    • neutron star spin up
    • pulsar properties
      • Taylor-Hulse
      • msec
    • spectroscopy
      • composition of stars  — atomic physics
      • 21 cm line and H – atomic physics
      • Doppler shift – Hubble’s law
      • gravitational redshift – general relativity
      • magnetic fields –Zeeman effect
        • in stars
        • in space
    • general relativity
      • gravitational radiation
        • Taylor-Hulse
        • LIGO
      • Shapiro measurements
      • deflection of starlight by Sun
      • gravitational redshift
        • Pound-Rebka
        • Mueller-Chu
        • GPS
      • black holes
    • plasmas
      • solar wind
      • effects on observations
    • cosmic rays
      • detection
      • nature – physical properties: composition, energy,
      • behavior in Earth’s atmosphere and Earth’s magnetic field
      • models of generation – electromagnetic
    • neutrinos
      • Solar neutrinos –
        • Davis experiment
        • SNO
        • Kamiokande
      • supernova neutrinos
        • SN1987A
        • IceCube

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[su_spoiler title=”Use technologies as contexts for teaching physics” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”chevron-circle” anchor=”” class=””]Develop modules that explain the physics underlying modern astronomical and space science technologies.

  • radio telescopy & long baseline interferometry
  • optical telescopes
    • large mirrors
    • multi mirror telescopes
    • adaptive optics
  • x-ray telescopy – Chandra, ROSAT
    • interactions of x-rays with matter – detectors
  • mm telescopy – Keck, Atacama
    • IR detectors
  • gamma-ray telescopy – Fermi and detection physics
    • detectors
    • Compton scattering
    • synchrotron radiation
    • free-free
    • pair production and annihilation
  • LIGO
    • interferometry
    • signal/noise
  • IceCube
    • astronomy and neutrinos
    • detection
  • Davis expt
  • SNO
  • Grand Sasso
  • Kamiokande

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[su_spoiler title=”Use themes from astronomy and space science” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”chevron-circle” anchor=”” class=””]Develop bodies of material, including textbooks, that select and present physics to explicate a significant theme.

  • physics & astronomy that will enable a student to understand various parts of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2010)
  • physics & astronomy needed to understand why we believe Earth is situated where we think it is in the Universe
  • why we think stars are what they are and how they evolve
  • modern version of Newton’s System of the World
  • physics & astronomy of living in space
    • NASA Space Settlements
    • physics of the International Space Station
    • physics of traveling to Mars
  • observational cosmology
    • CMB & Big Bang
    • CMB fluctuations
    • observations at large z
    • connections to particle physics

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[su_spoiler title=”Educational research” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”chevron-circle” anchor=”” class=””]

  • for topics and themes what basic ideas are essential?
  • what are the goals of the instruction?
    • are the goals of physics instruction different from those of astronomy instruction?
    • horizontal curriculum – what are the goals beyond the subject matter itself?
    • bottom-up syllabus
  • what works?
    • presentation modes
    • math levels
  • possibilities of integrated design
    • integration of PER and AER results with subject matter
  • does the injection of astronomy into physics instruction lead to
    • better understanding of the physics?
    • better understanding of the astronomy?
    • improved motivation of students?
    • improved motivation of faculty?
    • appreciation of the breadth of applicability of physics?

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[su_spoiler title=”Develop guides for using materials on the web” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”chevron-circle” anchor=”” class=””]

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