2020-09-15
astr-1101
- Only need to recognize Orion and the Big Dipper
- Constellations
- You can use the Big Dipper to find Polaris
- Angular size, distance, separation
- Apparent size measured in degrees (or radians)
- Object in sky stretching from your zenith to the horizon would have an angular size of 90Ëš
- Angular separation between setting Sun and the Moon overhead is 90Ëš
- Apparent motion of the stars
- Star motion impossible to see on a daily basis because they are so far away
- Perpendicular to the horizon --> equator
- Parallel to the horizon --> North Pole
- Early Greek and Roman cosmology
- What they knew ~2500 years ago
- Earth was a sphere
- Shadow shape, changing stars as you move south
- Sun is farther from Earth than the Moon
- Stars seem to slowly move in regular pattern
- Thought Earth was stationary (they were wrong but moving in the right direction)
- Ranking system for magnitude of stars
cpsc-1050
- Goals
- Distinguish among categories of numbers
- Describe positional notation
- Convert numbers in other bases to base 10
- Convert base-10 numbers to numbers in other bases
- Describe the relationship between bases 2, 8, and 16
- Explain the importance to computing of bases that are powers of 2
- Convert binary --> decimal
- Convert real decimal --> binary
- Perform binary addition/subtraction
- Two's compliment
- Number Theory
- Grace Hopper