Study Guides for AST 105


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Part I

 

Part II

 

Part III

 

Part IV

Introduction

 

Light

 

Quiet Sun

 

Planet Observations I

Sky Motions

 

Line Spectra

 

Active Sun

 

Planet Observations II

Greek Astronomy

 

Radiation Curves

 

Evolution

 

Terrestrial Planets

Renaissance

 

Star Properties

 

Stellar Death - Low Mass

 

Jovian Planets

 

 

Binary Stars

 

Stellar Death - High Mass

 

Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids

 

 

Telescopes

 

The Milky Way

 

Exoplanets & Life in the Universe

 

 

 

 

Galaxies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmology and QSO's

 

 


 Summary Notes

Part I

 

Part II

 

Part III

 

Part IV

Introduction

 

Light

 

Quiet Sun

 

Planet Observations I

Sky Motions

 

Line Spectra

 

Active Sun

 

Planet Observations II

Greek Astronomy

 

Radiation Curves

 

Evolution

 

Terrestrial Planets

Renaissance

 

Star Properties

 

Stellar Death - Low Mass

 

Jovian Planets

 

 

Binary Stars

 

Stellar Death - High Mass

 

Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids

 

 

Telescopes

 

The Milky Way

 

Exoplanets & Life in the Universe

 

 

 

 

Galaxies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmology and QSO's

 

 


Extras

Doppler Effect

 AST 105 Syllabus

Animations

Ecliptic

Drawing Ellipses

Orbiting Earth

Phases of the Moon

Form of Ellipses

 

Moon Rise/Moon Set

Kepler’s 2nd Law

 

Moon’s Orbit and Eclipses

Retrograde Motion

 

 

Phases of Venus

 

 

Ptolemy’s Model

 

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Waves

H-R Diagram 1

Spectra

H-R Diagram 2

Doppler Shifts

Age of Cluster

Spectroscopy

Parallax 1

Wien’s Law

Parallax 2

 

Temp - Luminosity

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Sun’s Structure

Collapse of Solar Nebula

Keplerian Rotation

Granulation

Main Sequence

Rotation of a Spiral Galaxy

Sunspot

Death of the Sun

 

Sun’s Rotation

Death of Massive Star

 

X-ray Sun

 

 

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Formation of the Planets

Atmospheric Circulation

Finding Exoplanets

Model of the Solar System

Jupiter’s Clouds

Finding Exoplanets 2

Collapse of the Solar Nebula

Saturn’s Rings

Transit of a Hot Jupiter

Compare the Planets

Outer Planet Orbits