Modern Astronomy

Lecture Notes

Fall 2003


#1: 25 August: Initial Pleasantries: What's in the night sky?
#2: 27 August: An Overview of the Solar System ---PowerPoint File
#3: 29 August: Mars I
#4: 03 September: Mars II ---PowerPoint File
#5: 05 September: The Night Sky I
#6: 08 September: The Night Sky II ---PowerPoint File
#8: 10 September: Light and Telescopes ---PowerPoint File
#9: 17 September: The Sun as we see it ---PowerPoint File
#10: 19 September: Stars ---PowerPoint File
#11: 22 September: Stars: Distances and Magnitudes ---PowerPoint File
#12: 24 September: Starlight ---PowerPoint File
#13: 26 September: Spectroscopy and the Nature of Stars ---PowerPoint File
#14: 01 October: Spectroscopy and the Nature of Stars (cont) ---PowerPoint File
#15: 03 October: The Hertzsprung Russell Diagram ---PowerPoint File
#16: 06 October: The Energy Sources of Stars ---PowerPoint File
#17: 08 October: Double Stars and what they tell us ---PowerPoint File
#18: 10 October: Masses of stars and Main Sequence Lifetimes ---PowerPoint File
#19: 13 October: Formation of Stars ---PowerPoint File
#20: 15 October: How Stars Form ---PowerPoint File
#21: 17 October: How Stars Form (cont) ---PowerPoint File
#22: 20 October: Interstellar Chemistry ---PowerPoint File
#23: 22 October: Post-Main Sequence Stellar Evolution ---PowerPoint File
#24: 24 October: White Dwarfs and More Stellar Evolution ---PowerPoint File
#25: 31 October: Neutron Stars and Pulsars
#26: 03 November: Black Holes: What they are ---PowerPoint File
#27: 05 November: The Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy ---PowerPoint File
#28: 07 November: The Center of the Milky Way Galaxy ---PowerPoint File
#29: 10 November: More about the Milky Way ---PowerPoint File
#30: 12 November: The Milky Way and Spiral Galaxies ---PowerPoint File
#31: 14 November: What's the Milky Way made of? ---PowerPoint File
#32: 17 November: Galaxies and the Universe ---PowerPoint File
#33: 19 November: Extragalactic Astronomy ---PowerPoint File
#34: 21 November: Radio Galaxies and Quasars ---PowerPoint File
#35: 01 December: Cosmology I ---PowerPoint File
#36: 03 December: Cosmology II ---PowerPoint File
#37: 05 December: Cosmology III ---PowerPoint File
#38: 08 December: Cosmology IV ---PowerPoint File
#39: 10 December: Omnis in Exitu Eius Pulchrimma ---PowerPoint File