I am currently teaching an intro-astronomy course for non-science majors. Since I am already putting together some slides on various topics, I figured I would also make videos of them and post them online. These are not the same slides I use in class, so if you are one of my students, this may be helpful to see things presented in a different manner. Also, I tried to break up the lectures in to smaller pieces. This way if you just want to look at one of the topics, you don’t have to look through a whole video.
*You might want to view these videos in full screen - especially for the ones with slides.
Introduction to the Introduction
This was basically a test to see how easy or hard it would be to put up these videos. You really don’t have to watch this one.
Part 1: Introduction and Stuff You can Observe
- Introduction to Astronomy
- Motions of the Sky
- Celestial Sphere
- Angular Size
- Seasons
- Phases of the Moon and Eclipses
- Parallax