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Task 1: How the course works (15 min)
Task 2: Scale of the Solar System (15 min)
Task 3: Our next-star neighbours (15 min)
Task 4: Humans vs. cosmic scales (60 min)
Structure of the Solar System
Three laws of planetary motion
Moon phases
Lecture-01-Tammi
Astronomical distances [2p]
Phases of the moon [2p]
Kepler's Laws [2p]
Sunrise and -set times and directions
Sunlight "wins and fails"
Leap years and leap seconds
Lecture-02-Tammi
Daylight saving time in the 21st century [2p]
Synodic and sidereal [2p]
Heliacal rising [2p]
Time and calendars
Mythology of planets and constellations
How do YOU use astronomy in everyday life?
Lecture3
Finding direction in various situations [4p]
Lunar, Solar, Jovian, Kronian [2p]
What is a lunar standstill
World heritage sites with astronomical connections
Experiment for the lecture
Lecture 4
How would you record a significant astronomical event? [3p]
Cycles of Venus [3p]
How the circumference of the Earth was measured
Astronomical instruments
Lecture 5
You vs. Aristotle [3p]
Milky Way, our home galaxy [3p]
Example learning diary A
Example Learning diary B
Example Learning diary C
Session slides
Eval.session 1: Compensating assignment
The Sun and other stars
Supernovae, gravity, and expansion of the universe
Lecture slides - L7
Different kinds of stars [3p]
TRAPPIST-1 and seven Earth-sized planets [3p]
Historical background for those interested
Astronomy over the whole electromagnetic spectrum
Slides - Lecture 8
It's all relative
Space-time
Lecture slides - L9
Share your astronomical inspiration
Introduction slides
Markus Hotakainen's slides (Forensic astronomy)
Forensic astronomy [5p]
Reflections on lecture materials [1p]
Student presentations
What is life? Alien life forms? Are we alone?
Lecture 11 (~20 MB)
The Drake equation
Lecture slides, final lecture
Reading news about astronomical discoveries [3p]
Hello, darkness, my old friend [3p]
Your astronomical view of the world
Course feedback questionnaire
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AVotW Learning Diary 1
AVotW Learning Diary 2
AVotW Learning Diary 3
AVotW Learning Diary 4
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ELEC-A4930 - Astronomical View of the World, 02.01.2018-03.04.2018
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L0 - Preliminary work
L1 - Introduction & Solar system
L2 - Celestial mechanics from the terrestrial perspective
L3 - One planet, one sky, one people
L4 - "Sancta terra"
L5 - Towards scientific astronomy
L6 - Eval.session (class)
L7 - The past 100 years
Excursion 22.2.2018
L8 - Astronomy in the 21st century
L9 - Modern astronomical worldview
L10 - Art and science fiction
L11 - Astrobiology
L12 - Big open questions
L13 - Eval.ses. (online)
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