1. Science is Seeing Space 2. A Scale Model Set the Earth to the size of a walnut, or a 1:10,000,000 scale model = • The Moon is a pea at arm’s length • The Sun is…

Slide 1Cosmology GREAT WEB RESOURCE: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm Contains a cosmological calculator A tutorial…

Slide 1Science with Future CMB Observations Lloyd Knox UC Davis Slide 2 CMB Accomplishments CMB is a powerful cosmological probe –Applicability of linear theory highly…

Dark Energy: Origins and Evidence ABSTRACT The aim of this paper will be a review of the theoretical origins of the concept of Dark Energy in contemporary cosmology, tracing…

Slide 1 Matter Chapter 2 Slide 2 The Basics of Matter Matter – is anything that has mass and takes up space – it is the “stuff” of which the universe is composed…

Slide 1Using Baryon Acoustic Oscillations to test Dark Energy Will Percival The University of Portsmouth (including work as part of 2dFGRS and SDSS collaborations) Slide…

Slide 1 Chemistry chapter 11 Matter and Change Slide 2 Chemistry chapter 12 What does chemistry mean to me? Plastic Synthetic fabrics and materials Antibiotics and other…

Slide 1 Assigning a distance by redshift The Hubble law lets us use a simple spectrum of a galaxy to figure out where it is along the line-of-sight. Higher redshifts indeed…

Slide 1 How do we transform between accelerated frames? Consider Newton’s first and second laws: m i is the measure of the inertia of an object – its resistance to a…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Scientific Measurement Chapter 3 Slide 3 3-1 The Importance of Measurement Qualitative vs Quantitative Measurement What color vs What mass? Scientific Notation…