Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy, 2nd Edition
ISBN-10: 0-13-239226-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-239226-6
Published by Addison-Wesley
© 2008
Pub. Date: Aug 1, 2007
Format: Paper
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Table of Contents
The Night Sky
1. Position
2. Motion
3. Seasonal Stars
4. Solar vs. Sidereal Day
5. Ecliptic
6. Star Charts
Fundamentals of Astronomy
7. Kepler’s 2nd Law
8. Kepler’s 3rd Law
9. Newton’s Laws and Gravity
10. Apparent and Absolute Magnitudes of Stars
11. The Parsec
12. Parallax and Distance
13. Spectroscopic Parallax
Nature of Light in Astronomy
14. The Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum of Light
15. Telescopes and Earth’s Atmosphere
16. Luminosity, Temperature and Size
17. Blackbody Radiation
18. Types of Spectra
19. Light and Atoms
20. Analyzing Spectra
21. Doppler Shift
Our Solar System
22. The Cause of Moon Phases
23. Predicting Moon Phases
24. Path of Sun
25. Seasons
26. Observing Retrograde Motion
27. Earth’s Changing Surface
28. Temperature and Formation of Our Solar System
29. Sun Size
Stars Galaxies and Beyond
30. H-R Diagram
31. Star Formation and Lifetimes
32. Binary Stars
33. The Motion of Extrasolar Planets
34. Stellar Evolution
35. Milky Way Scales
36. Galaxy Classification
37. Looking at Distant Objects
38. Expansion of the Universe
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