How to Write Your Own Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy (ASP 2010)

Professor Tim Slater from the Gambado Center for Astronomy & Physics Education Research Team leads a seminar at the COSMOS in the Classroom ...

Synchronous Rotation of the Moon

Moon astronomy "synchronous rotation ... Blue planet image credit: NASA ... rotation: it's rotation full stop is the same as its period of revolution.

Three forms of Kepler's Laws

howto ... Newtonian convention with the gravitational constant, and a convenient intermediate form that is useful in an introductory astronomy class. ...