Astronomy for Curious Engineers

TEACHING UNIT 1. WHERE WE COME FROM AND WHERE WE ARE VIDEOS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. WHERE WE COME FROM AND WHERE WE ARE 2.1. THE ORIGIN. WHERE WE COME FROM 2.2. WHERE WE ARE TEACHING UNIT 2. THE SUN GIVES US LIGHT AND GUIDES US VIDEOS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE CALENDAR 2.1. Calendar adjustments. Julian correction 2.2. Calendar adjustments. Gregorian correction 3. THE ECLIPTIC 4. DECLINATION, HOUR ANGLE, ALTITUDE, AND AZIMUTH; MERIDIANS AND PARALLELS 4.1. The Armillary Sphere 5. HOW TO DETERMINE OUR COORDINATES: LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMICAL NAVIGATION TEACHING UNIT 3. EARTH’S MOTIONS VIDEOS 1. EARTH’S OBLATENESS 2. PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES 3. MISALIGNMENT OF HOROSCOPES 4. HOW TO DATE A DOCUMENT THAT CONTAINS ASTRONOMICAL REFERENCES 5. HOW TO ALIGN ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS WITH ANCIENT HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS 6. OTHER ORBITAL VARIATIONS: INCLINATION AND ECCENTRICITY 7. HOW TO DATE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MONUMENT WITH ASTRONOMICAL ALIGNMENTS: PRACTICAL EXERCISE 8. GLACIATIONS AND INTERGLACIATIONS. THE MILANKOVITCH CYCLES 8.1. What Does the Future Hold, Considering the Milankovitch Cycles? 8.2. Analysis of Long-Term Climate Changes TEACHING UNIT 4. CLASSICAL ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS VIDEOS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE GREAT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS 3. ERATOSTHENES“ CALCULATION OF THE EARTH’S RADIUS 4. ERATOSTHENES” CALCULATION OF THE OBLICUITY OF THE ECLIPTIC 5. ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS’ CALCULATION OF THE DISTANCE FROM EARTH TO THE SUN 6. HYPARCHUS OF NICEAS’ CALCULATION OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN EARTH AND THE MOON 7. CALCULATION OF THE PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES BY HYPARCHUS 8. CALCULATION OF THE DISTANCE FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON BY PARALLAX LEARNING UNIT 5. THE SUN AND THE EARTH VIDEOS 1. THE SUN 1.1. The Sun’s Extraordinary Journey Through the Galaxy 1.2. The Sun’s Thermal Power 2. THE EARTH 2.1. Energy Received from the Sun 2.2. Absorption and Reflection of Solar Rays by the Atmosphere 2.3. Thermal Inertia 2.4. Calculation of the Actual Temperature Due to the Greenhouse Effect 2.5. Variations in Earth’s albedo. The importance of clouds 2.6. Earth’s atmosphere and the origin of life 2.7. Foucault’s pendulum. Proof that the Earth revolves around the Sun 2.8. General wind patterns on Earth 2.9. Other Interesting Astronomical Phenomena Observable on Earth TEACHING UNIT 6. THE MOON VIDEOS 1. THE FORMATION OF THE MOON 2. THE TIDES 3. THE MOON ALWAYS SHOWS US THE SAME SIDE 4. THE PHASES OF THE MOON 5. THE ASH-LIKE LIGHT 6. OTHER EFFECTS OF THE MOON ON EARTH. THE DAY IS GETTING LONGER AND LONGER 7. LIVING CONDITIONS ON THE MOON 8. SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES 9. THE “BLOOD MOON” NATURAL PHENOMENON 10. SUPERMOON 11. SOLAR ECLIPSES 12. PATTERNS USED BY ANCIENT PEOPLES TO PREDICT ECLIPSES. THE SAROS CYCLE