1st Edition
AST 115: Basic Astronomy
School: Missouri State University (MSU )
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Pages: 5Lecture 15 includes: a description of extra-solar planets (exoplanets); examples of difficulties that come with searching for exoplanets; examples and descriptions of various detection techniques; results of the discovery of some exoplanets -
Pages: 4Lecture 14 includes: detailed descriptions of the formation of the 8 major planets of the solar system; explains what happened to the leftover debris from the construction process; and describes the categories of the changing classifications -
Pages: 3Lecture 13 notes include: a description of "regulatories" of the solar system, a description of the orbits of the 8 major planets in our solar system, information about the age of our solar system, a list of the building materials for the solar system, and a description of the Solar Nebula Theory and the Nice Model. -
Pages: 3Lecture 12 notes include: a description of the properties of the planets in our solar system, descriptions of the Terrestrial planets, descriptions of the Jovian planets, and a chart comparing the Terrestrial and Jovian planets. -
Pages: 7Lecture 11 includes: a continuation of reflecting telescopes; a description and examples of various astronomical detection equipment; a description of radio astronomy and others; a detailed explanation of why stars have color; radiation laws by Planck, Stefan-Boltzmann, and Wien; an explanation of Kirchhoff's Laws of Spectroscopy; Bohr's Model of the hydrogen atom. -
Pages: 4Lecture 10 includes: a description of the particle nature of light continued; the doppler effect; properties/powers of a telescope; a description of telescopes and observatories -
Pages: 4Lecture 9 includes: a description of Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation along with diagrams and equations; Newton's revisions to Kepler's laws; an introduction to chapter 3; the electromagnetic spectrum; the particle nature of light -
Pages: 3Lecture 8: includes an overview of Johannes Kepler and his work (3 Laws of Planetary Motion); Galileo's contributions to astronomy and his experiments; Sir Isaac Newton and his 3 Laws of Motion -
Pages: 2Lecture 7: includes three arguments against astrology; a description of Nicholas Copernicus' heliocentric theory; Tycho Brahe's theories. -
Pages: 3Lecture 6: includes the "laws" and aspects of science; the steps to the scientific method; 5th illusion in the night sky; retrograde motion; Ptolemy's Geocentric theory; an introduction to astrology -
Pages: 3Lecture 5: includes a continuations of eclipses; the descriptions of 3 types of solar eclipses; the descriptions of 3 types of lunar eclipses; total solar eclipse statistics; the small angle equation -
Pages: 2Lecture 4: includes a continuation of measuring time, the description of different types of calendars, the definition and causes of precession, and an introduction to eclipses. -
Pages: 3Lecture 3: includes how to measure your latitude on Earth, circumpolar stars, the causes of the seasons on Earth, an overview of what causes the phases of the Moon, the view of the Earth from the surface of the Moon, Synodic vs sidereal periods, and various systems of measuring time. -
Pages: 2Lecture 2 Notes: includes a continuation of illusions in the night sky, constellations of the zodiac, the coordinate/angle system of locating objects in the sky, and the daily paths of objects in the galaxy. -
Pages: 2Lecture 2 Notes: includes an introduction to the course; explains the formula for the powers of ten notation; the metric system; the fundamental unit of mass; and an introduction to chapter 1.