INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY/ASTROPHYSICS
SCI 201 - 03
| ANNOUNCEMENTS: NO MAKE UP for labs. Late HW = - 5 if 1 day late and then 0. No exception HW due every Monday. See below for the HW on line help on facebook from me and classmates. Create a facebook account just for this class. (no personal account). friend doc lankar. (the profile pic is a rainbow with a tree). when you post a question, specify your section. = homework = WEdnesday Sept. 8th (because Monday is labor day) + review last slides of lecture assignment1 part2 + assignment 1 part1 my schedule + office hours in Hayden Hall LIST OF LABS |
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lecture 1= tour of
the class - distance and time in the Universe
chapter1 image: Andromeda is 2 1/2 million light years away. 100,000 light year across merger between 2 galaxies relative size of planets travel along the distance scale applet travel in space video: stars of the universe: grand tour see distance (2 minutes) lecture 1 notes movie introduction fron Britannica=15 minutes assignment= REVIEW scientific notation + ratios + assignment1 part2 + assignment 1 part1 |
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lecture2
= brief history from Copernicus to Newton, Newtonian Physics, motion in heaven. chapter 4 lecture2 notes assigment 2 |
| Kepler's 3rd law, angular distance | lecture
4: light , electromagnetism spectrum chapter 5.1
star spectra NASAmissions 5 minutes movie= password excellent movie from NASA list of NASAmissions more an EM waves properties 4 minutes movie about EM spectra lecture4 notes assignment = assignment4 + READ chapter 5.1 |
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lecure5 :
atoms and starlight, spectra -= fingerprints of aroms Bohr model, absorption spectrum, temperature (some part of the chapter 6) movie spectroscopy bohr model/absorption lines (signature of atoms 3 minutes) hydrogen and helium spectra emission lines applet excellent applet with doppler shift another animation hydrogen atom + excellent website applet black body lecture5 notes assignment5 |
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6: doppler shift, black body and temperature chapter 6 applet blackbody/appearance Power vs T video: relative size of stars video:black body/quantum physics (see quantum leap 5min) applet black body redshift lecture6 notes lab assignment : READ chapter 6 + assignment 6 |
| sky, paterns in the sky solar eclipse video july 11 tilt of the Earth/seasons tides |
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7: optics and telescopes, the tools of astronomy . chapter 5 hubble telescope pillars of creaction jupiter triple eclipse twinkling of stars applet refracting telescope applet lens applet reflecting telescope applet refracting telescope video telescopes video Golden Eye radio telescope lecture7 notes assignment : READ chapter5 + assignment7 |
| exoplanets solar system |
lecture
8: solar system an overview formation
chapter 7 planets, comets and other debris. excellent artist's review of planets planets more info NEAR landing on EROS saturn rings Titan, SAturn moon has methane lakes and rain or drizzle of methane mimas, death star ? Uranus moon Io made of pizza ?highly volcanic sulfur spew out Europa oxygen atmosphere, liquid slushy water under ice, life? Enceladus SAturn moon. water geyser, thin crust easy to dig, ice and water. life ? Callisto the most cratered moon. very old Miranda and FRankenstein Uranus moon uranus orbit nebula hypothesis 1 part2 Asteroid Ida and its moon (galileo) Enceladus active geyser of water maybe life Triton moon of Neptune ice volcanoes movie=Earth science/solar syste, from discovery channel 20 minutes birth of solar system(u-tube) movie 2: Nemesis from discovery channel assignment = READ CHAPTER 7 (skip 7.4) + review questions 1,2,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14 learning to look 1, 2 |
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9 catastrophic collision
death of dinosaurs. oort cloud and scattered disk kuiper belt eris orbit chapter 10 peekskill meteorite (meteoroids = space, meteor=shooting star, meteorite) , meteor crater, from asteroid belt yucattan peninsula chicxulub cater extinction video shoemaker comet toyota commercial lecture 9 note assignment = READ chapter 10 + assignment9 |
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10: extra solar planets/exoplanets chapter 7.4 list of exoplanets website with list vs distance transit of Venux 2004 applet star moving in response to planet applet: absorption lines moving as the star wobble. applet=transit method artist's images see this page formation of planets around the star Beta pictoris horsehead nebula trapezium cluster proto planetary disks lecture 10 notes assignment = READ 7.4 + assignment10 |
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11: Our star the Sun chapter 11 photos of Sun in x-rays, UV .. chromosphere photosphere video: sunspots: from GAlileo to SOHO video SOHO/TRACE corona explosion solar prominence Nemesis an " evil twin" video. (Dr. Richard Muller developed this theory) video magnetic field of the sun GREAT MOVIE great photos and animations video: stars of the universe: the Sun (streaming discovery) website for more lecture11 notes assignment=READ chapter 11 + assignment 11 |
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12: stars, how to find temperature, distance, luminosity (rate of
energy burned/ses), mass. relationships, H-R diagram chapter 12 applet inverse square law applet parallax black body applet applet luminosity versus temperature and size applet binary star applet binary systen amd see saw applet binay stars binary star (sirius) more on binary stars lecture12notes assignment= READ chapter 12 + assignment12 |
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13: age of stars, age of clusters, formation of stars fusion
chapter 13 fusion reaction in stars video: stars of the universe: grand tour (dicovery streaming) see cluster, birth of star, types of stars H-R diagram how a cluster evolves with time globular cluster, see movie on fission/fusion on discovery streaming lecture13notes assignment = read chapter 13 (don't worry about CNO) + assignment part1 assignment part2 |
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14: fate of our Sun from a white star to red giant to white dwarf
chapter 14.1
chapter 14.2 evolution of sun artist's view = what will happen to earth video: stars of the universe: grand tour , see death red giant globular cluster, red giant=cosmic burp, exploxion lecutre 14 notes assignment = read chapter14.2 14.3 and assignment14 |
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15: supernovae and neutron stars
chapter14 chapter 15.1 supernova video explosion supernovae I video remnants of supernovae another TYPEI video video: stars of the universe:gramd tour. see part neutron star see movie supernova explosion on discovery channel: video ping pong on basket ball lecture15notes assignment 15 + read chapter 14.3 to end + chapter15.1 |
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lecture 16: black holes
video: black hole : the ultimate abyss see the videos from the part on BH black hole, black hole jets, worm hole, inside a black hole assignment16 |
| lecture 17 : milky way , gamma bursts,
galaxies 6 milky way, milky way constellation, , milky way, cluster of galaxies milky way from Bolivie source: webiste |
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| lecture18: cosmology, redshifts of galaxies, the shape
of the Universe, dark energy and dark matter, Big Bang, Hubbe's law, cosmological constant chapter 19 cosmic background radiation, big bang |
introductory