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

Sun’s Motion

Drawing Ellipses

Phases of the Moon

Seasons

Form of Ellipses

Moon Rise/Moon Set

Coordinate Systems

Kepler’s 2nd Law

Moon’s Orbit and Eclipses

Kepler’s Laws

Retrograde Motion

Heliacal Rising

Geocentric phases for Venus

Ptolemy’s Model

Big Dipper Clock

Heliocentric Phases of Venus

Orbiting Earth

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Waves

H-R Diagram 1

Spectra

H-R Diagram 2

Doppler Shifts

Age of Cluster

Three Types of Spectra

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