ASTR 1102 - Intro to Stars and Galaxies

• Follow up to astr-1101

Resources

• Textbook
• Astronomy Notes
• Online Astronomy Text Table of Contents

Study

• Electromagnetic spectrum
• Planetary motion
• Laws of motion
• Telescopes
• Sun
• Proton-proton chain

Overview

• wk01
  • Worksheet
    • Hubble constant
      • Galaxy moving away
      • Age of the Universe
    • Energy in the Sun
    • Lightbulb energy
    • Earth speed around the Sun
    • Sun speed around the galaxy
• wk02
  • Textbook
    • Chapter 3 - Orbits and Gravity
    • Chapter 5 - Radiation and Spectra
  • Worksheet
    • Angular size
    • Forces
    • Isaac Newton's second law (laws of motion)
      • Weight on other surfaces
    • Momentum
      • Astronaut throwing a sleeping bag
    • Energy
      • Kinetic energy
      • Dropping a brick
    • Escape velocity
    • Waves
      • Travel
      • Calculating wavelength
    • Spectra and spectral analysis
    • Speed of light using microwaves
    • The Doppler Effect
      • Calculating wavelength based on Doppler shifts and emission spectra
    • Blackbody curves
  • Lab
    • Dropping a ball and gravity
• wk03
  • Textbook
    • Chapter 6 - Astronomical Instruments (Telescopes)
      • Stars visible to the naked eye (Problem 26)
    • Chapter 15 - The Sun
    • Chapter 16 - The Sun
      • Energy from proton-proton chain
  • Worksheet
    • Angular resolution
      • Of an eye
      • Resolving the Moon
      • Resolving Jupiter
      • Telescope
      • Hubble Space Telescope
      • How far would you have to move X so that it has an angular resize that equals the angular resolution of Y?
    • Gas pressure in the photosphere
    • Fusion in the Sun
      • Mass lost due to solar wind
    • Sunspots and the Zeeman effect
      • Electrons moving between orbitals
      • Spectral analysis
      • Magnetic fields
    • Internal temperature of the Sun
  • Lab
    • Spectroscopy
    • laws of spectroscopy
  • wk04
    • Textbook
      • Chapter 18 - The Stars
    • Worksheet
      • Inverse square law of light
        • Sun's apparent brightness
        • Distance based on luminosity
        • Brightness of stars
      • Star classification
        • H-R diagram
        • Magnitude scale
          • Distance modulus
        • Stellar masses
          • doppler shift
        • Stellar radii
          • Stefan-Boltzmann Law
    • Lab
      • Spectroscopy
      • Surface temperature of a star

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