Modern Astronomy

Lecture Notes

Fall 2002

#1: 26 August: Initial Pleasantries and Overview of Solar System

#2: 28 August: Appearance of the Night Sky

#3: 30 August: Appearance of the Night Sky (cont)

#4: 04 September: Astronomy and the Seasons(cont)

#5: 06 September: The Sun as We See It

#6: 09 September: The Sun as we see it (cont)

#7: 11 September: The Nearest Stars

#8: 13 & 16 September: Stellar Magnitudes, Apparent and Absolute

#9: 18 September: Starlight

#10: 20 September: More Starlight

#11: 25 September: The Hertzsprung Russell Diagram

#12: 02 October: The Power Source of the Stars

#13: 04 October: The Power Source of the Stars (cont)

#14: 07 October: Where do stars come from?

#15: 07 October: Where do stars come from? (cont)

#16: 11 October: Dark Clouds and Star Formation

#17: 14 October: Dark Clouds as Chemical Reactors

#18: 16 October: Beyond the Main Sequence I

#19: 21 October: Beyond the Main Sequence II: Massive Stars

#20: 25 October: Core Collapse of Massive Stars

#21: 28 October: Neutron Stars

#22: 30 October: Black Holes...what they are

#23: 04 November: Black Holes...Are they out there?

#24: 06 November: Stars like the Sun

#25: 04 November: Stars like the Sun (continued)

#26: 11 November: The Structure of the Milky Way

#27: 18 November: Our Galaxy and Other Galaxies

#28: 20 November: Galaxies and the Universe

#29: 22 November: Deep Extragalactic Space

#30: 25 November: A Lecture that dealt with IMPORTANT MATERIAL THAT WILL BE ON THE TEST

#31: 02 December: Dark Matter and Cosmology I

#32: 04 December: Cosmology II

#33: 06 December: Cosmology III

#34: 09 December: Cosmology IV