Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

Lecture Notes

Summer 2004


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#1: 08 June: Initial Pleasantries: What's in the night sky? ---PowerPoint File
#2: 09 June: An Overview of the Solar System ---PowerPoint File
#3: 10 June: Mars and Saturn I
#4: 11 June: Mars and Saturn II ---PowerPoint File
#5: 14 June: The Night Sky I ---PowerPoint File
#6: 15 June: The Night Sky II ---PowerPoint File
#8: 16 June: Light and Telescopes ---PowerPoint File
#9: 17 June: The Sun as we see it ---PowerPoint File
#10: 18 June: Stars ---PowerPoint File
#11: 21 June: Stars: Distances and Magnitudes ---PowerPoint File
#12: 22 June: Starlight ---PowerPoint File
#13: 23 June: Spectroscopy and the Nature of Stars ---PowerPoint File
#14: 25 June: Spectroscopy and the Nature of Stars (cont) ---PowerPoint File
#15: 28 June: The Hertzsprung Russell Diagram ---PowerPoint File
#16: 29 June: The Energy Sources of Stars ---PowerPoint File
#17: 30 June: Double Stars and what they tell us ---PowerPoint File
#18: 01 July: Masses of stars and Main Sequence Lifetimes ---PowerPoint File
#19: 02 July: Formation of Stars ---PowerPoint File
#20: 05 July: How Stars Form ---PowerPoint File
#21: 06 July: How Stars Form (cont) ---PowerPoint File
#22: 07 July: Interstellar Chemistry ---PowerPoint File
#23: 08 July: Post-Main Sequence Stellar Evolution ---PowerPoint File
#24: 09 July: White Dwarfs and More Stellar Evolution ---PowerPoint File
#25: 13 July: Massive Star Stellar Evolution ---PowerPoint File
#26: 15 July: Neutron Stars and Pulsars ---PowerPoint File
#27: 16 July: Black Holes: What they are ---PowerPoint File
#27: 19 July: The Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy ---PowerPoint File
#28: 20 July: The Center of the Milky Way Galaxy ---PowerPoint File
#29: 21 July: More about the Milky Way ---PowerPoint File
#30: 22 July: The Milky Way and Spiral Galaxies ---PowerPoint File
#31: 22 July: What's the Milky Way made of? ---PowerPoint File
#32: 22 July: Galaxies and the Universe ---PowerPoint File
#33: 23 July: Extragalactic Astronomy ---PowerPoint File
#35: 26 July: Cosmology I ---PowerPoint File
#36: 27 July: Cosmology II ---PowerPoint File
#37: 28 July: Cosmology III ---PowerPoint File
#38: 29 July: Cosmology IV ---PowerPoint File
#39: 29 July: Omnis in Exitu Eius Pulchrimma ---PowerPoint File