EDITORIAL — Charles H. Holbrow and Peter Shaffer, Theme Issue Editors
CONTENTS
Author(s) | Title |
Jodi L. Christiansen & Andrew Siver | Computing accurate age and distance factors in cosmology |
Colin S. Wallace and Edward E. Prather | Teaching physics with Hubble’s law and dark matter |
Kevin Krisciunas, Erika DeBenedictus, Jeremy Steeger, Agnes Bischoff-Kim, Gil Tabak, & Kanika Pasricha | The First Three Rungs of the Cosmological Distance Ladder |
Roy R. Gould, Susan Sunbury, & Ruth Krumhansl | Using online telescopes to explore exoplanets from the physics classroom |
Gerald T. Ruch & Martin E. Johnston | A Robotic Observatory in the City |
Benjamin Oostra | Measurement of the Earth’s Rotational Speed via Doppler Shift of Solar Absorption Lines |
Hsiang-Wen Hsu & Mihaly Horanyi | Ballistic motion of dust particles in the Lunar Roving Vehicle dust trails |
M. Kaan Ozturk | Trajectories of charged particles trapped in Earth’s magnetic field |
A. R. P. Rau | Topics in quantum physics with origins in astronomy: Two examples |
Jonathan M. Marr & Francis P. Wilkin | A Better Presentation of Planck’s Law Through Average Photon Energy and Spectral Energy Distributions |
Ronald J. Adler | Cosmogenesis and the tipping pencil analogy |
Davide Cenadelli, Marco Petenza, and Mauro Zeni | Stellar temperatures via Wien’s Law: Not so simple |
Richard H. Price & Joseph D. Romano | In an expanding universe, what doesn’t expand? |
Friedman | A Grand and Bold Thing, Ann Finkbeiner. 223 pp. Free Press, New York, 2010. Price $27.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4165-5216-1 |