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Cosmology: An Introductory Resource Guide for Instructors

written by Andrew Fraknoi
published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

This resource guide for introductory astronomy highlights useful and accessible materials on the web and in print. It is designed to help instructors quickly compile high-quality supplementary materials to support the teaching of cosmology. It includes a sampling of non-technical materials that instructors around the U.S. are using and are likely to be readily accessible. Resources include animations and simulations, selected talks on cosmology, lab activities, and selected books. Topics addressed include history of cosmology, dark energy, dark matter, cosmological distance, cosmic microwave, and the origin of the universe. Don't miss the selected simulations, a list of well-produced visualizations that would be difficult to find through traditional web searching.

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Cosmology - Stars = Black Holes Relativity - General Relativity = Black Holes - History	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Informal Education - Professional Development	- Collection - Instructional Material = Curriculum support = Tutorial - Reference Material = Bibliography

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Restriction:: © 2014 Andrew Fraknoi
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Keywords:: astronomy bibliography, bibliographies, big bang, black holes, cosmic microwave, dark energy, dark matter, expanding universe, general relativity, inflationary universe, modeling the universe, origin of the universe, quantum black holes, reading lists, resource guide, supernova
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Record Updated:: January 25, 2023 by Lyle Barbato
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4. The Physical Setting

4A. The Universe

9-12: 4A/H2ab. On the basis of scientific evidence, the universe is estimated to be over ten billion years old. The current theory is that its entire contents expanded explosively from a hot, dense, chaotic mass.
9-12: 4A/H2cd. Stars condensed by gravity out of clouds of molecules of the lightest elements until nuclear fusion of the light elements into heavier ones began to occur. Fusion released great amounts of energy over millions of years.
9-12: 4A/H3. Increasingly sophisticated technology is used to learn about the universe. Visual, radio, and X-ray telescopes collect information from across the entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves; computers handle data and complicated computations to interpret them; space probes send back data and materials from remote parts of the solar system; and accelerators give subatomic particles energies that simulate conditions in the stars and in the early history of the universe before stars formed.
9-12: 4A/H4. Mathematical models and computer simulations are used in studying evidence from many sources in order to form a scientific account of the universe.

4G. Forces of Nature

9-12: 4G/H1. Gravitational force is an attraction between masses. The strength of the force is proportional to the masses and weakens rapidly with increasing distance between them.

11. Common Themes

11B. Models

6-8: 11B/M4. Simulations are often useful in modeling events and processes.
9-12: 11B/H3. The usefulness of a model can be tested by comparing its predictions to actual observations in the real world. But a close match does not necessarily mean that other models would not work equally well or better.
9-12: 11B/H5. The behavior of a physical model cannot ever be expected to represent the full-scale phenomenon with complete accuracy, not even in the limited set of characteristics being studied. The inappropriateness of a model may be related to differences between the model and what is being modeled.

11D. Scale

6-8: 11D/M3. Natural phenomena often involve sizes, durations, and speeds that are extremely small or extremely large. These phenomena may be difficult to appreciate because they involve magnitudes far outside human experience.

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