How to Study

• Use this sheet as a reading guide for the chapters.
• Define the words below using your notes and book.
• Review your online quizzes.

Chapter 10 - Our Star, The Sun

• The Sun’s Interior:
  • thermonuclear core
  • radiative zone
  • convective zone
• The Sun’s Atmosphere:
  • photosphere
  • chromosphere
  • corona
• solar wind
• Gravitational Equilibrium (a.k.a. hydrostatic equilibrium)
• nuclear fusion and E=mc²
• proton-proton chain
• solar neutrino problem
• Surface Features:
  • granulation
  • prominences
  • sunspots
• sunspot cycle
• sunspot maximum
• sunspot minimum
• differential rotation

Chapter 12 - Star Stuff

• Low-Mass Stars
• Intermediate-Mass Stars
• High-Mass Stars
• molecular clouds
• protostar
• Life Track
• main sequence star
• Red Giant
• hydrogen shell burning
• helium fusion
• helium flash
• Planetary Nebula
• supernova (Supernova 1987A)
• Supernova Remnants (e.g. the Crab Nebula)
• nucleosythesis (Section: "Origin of the Elements")

Chapter 13 - The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard

• white dwarfs
• Chandrasekhar mass
• Accretion disk
• nova
• White Dwarf Supernova (a.k.a. Type I)
• Massive Star Supernova (a.k.a. Type II)
• neutron stars
• pulsars
• lighthouse model (Figure 13.9)
• blackholes

Chapter 14 - Our Galaxy, The Milky Way Galaxy

• Section 14.1 and Notes Only (Figures 14.1, 14.2)
• disk
• bulge
• spiral arms
• halo
• Globular Clusters
• Harlow Shapley’s observations of Globular Clusters
• The Sun’s location in the Milky Way
• dark matter

Chapter 15 - A Universe of Galaxies

• Sections 15.1,2 and Notes Only
• The Messier Catalog
• Spiral Galaxies
• Barred Spiral Galaxies
• Elliptical Galaxies
• Irregular Galaxies
• The Hubble Law: v = Ho x d
• The Big Bang
• Lookback Time