Lab 16: Hubble's Law

Sections

  1. Student Preparation which includes Quiz Preparation.
  2. Special Instructions For Instructors
  3. Startup Presentation
  4. Background Notes They may be incomplete or not exist.
  5. Deep Background Notes Intended primarily for instructors, but students can benefit from them too. They may be incomplete or not exist.

  1. Student Preparation

    2. Required Preparation for Section 9, but it is suggested for all sections plus whatever your section instructor requires.

    Lab Preparation:

    1. Required Reading: Lab 16. It is hard to understand software/equipment without first seeing and playing with it, but insofar as possible you should be ready to use software.
    2. Read a sufficient amount of the articles linked to the following terms etc. so that you can define and/or understand the terms etc. at the level of our class: absorption line spectrum, Ca H & K lines cosmological redshift, distance modulus, G band (faute de mieux, but other sources ambiguously suggest the G band is 4305 &plusm; 6 angstroms), Hubble constant, Hubble's law, redshift, visible.
    3. Background Notes if they exist.

    Suggested Supplementary Preparation. The items are often alternatives to the required preparation.

    1. Bennett, p. 644--653 on Hubble's law.
    2. IAL 31: Cosmology: The Expansion of the Universe and IAL 31: Cosmology: Hubble Time, Hubble Length, and the Observable Universe.
    3. Startup Presentation

    Quiz Preparation:

  2. Special Instructions For Instructors

    1. Check as needed:
      1. Usual Startup
      2. Usual Shutdown

  3. Startup Presentation

  4. Background Notes

  5. Deep Background Notes