Astronomers have used this set of single-color images, shown around the edge, to construct the color picture (center) of a ring of star clusters surrounding the core of the galaxy NGC 1512. These pictures were taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Faint Object Camera (FOC), Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). [From http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/index.html .]
Course information:
Our astronomy website:
Texas A&M Student Observatory:
http://astronomy.physics.tamu.edu
Many websites relevant to astronomy are listed here:
CNN news on astronomy:
Two beautiful PowerPoint talks, by Ashley Pagnotta on gamma ray bursts and by William Gould on gravity waves:
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Sample Exams:
2005-Phys314-Exam1.pdf with given constants Phys314-constants.pdf and a skeleton outline solution: solution-Phys314-Exam1.pdf
2005-Phys314-Exam2.pdf with a skeleton outline solution: solution-Phys314-Exam2.pdf
2005-Phys314-Exam3.pdf with a skeleton outline solution: solution-Phys314-Exam3.pdf
2005-Phys314-Final.pdf with a skeleton outline solution: solution-Phys314-Final.pdf