Two courses were developed for use by instructors of lower-division calculus-based college physics courses through NSF grant PHY-1404215 to Sonoma State University.
Original material from the 2015 course, LIGO: Waves and Gravity, is available at:
https://universe.sonoma.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=2
The material includes three chapters with homework assignments as well as additional resources and references:
- Learning More About Light
- Geometry and Gravity for Weak Fields
- Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves
The entire 2016 course, LIGO: Detecting Gravitational Waves, is available at:
https://universe.sonoma.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=3
The material includes five chapters with homework assignments as well as additional resources and references:
- Introduction and Background
- Direct Observations
- LIGO: The Basic Idea
- Sources of Noise
- Signal Extraction
