Class lectures
Printable lectures
- Notes 1
- Notes 2
- Notes 3
- Notes 4
- Notes 5
- Notes 6
- Notes 7
Homework
Quizzes
Resources
- Periodic table of elements
- Simulation of spectroscopic binaries
- Handout 1 - possibly useful table of constants, prefixes, conversion and electromagnetic spectrum.
- On the importance of using homogeneous units - about a probe and $125 millions lost because one team used English units (e.g., inches, feet and pounds) while the other used metric units for a key spacecraft operation.
Old class lectures
These are older handouts for ay4. You are encouraged to view them to get a preview of the upcoming classes, although the order/content of this year's classes might change.- Class Introduction, Scale of the Universe
- Telescopes
- The Reasons for Seasons: Motions of the Earth and Moon
- Star names, parallax, the Solar Neighborhood
- Stellar luminosity, inverse-square law
- Stellar temperatures and spectral types
- H-R diagram, stellar radii, stellar mass
- Stellar structure and models
- Energy sources for stars, P-P chain
- The Sun, solar wind, solar neutrinos
- Lifetimes of stars