Chapter 1 (week 1)
- Celestial coordinates
- Earth's orbital motions (solar day, sidereal day, etc)
- trigonometric parallax
- angular size, linear size, distance
- units of measure (parsec, AU)
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- sidereal day
- solar day
- light year
See also the sheet of celestial
coordinate definitions from day 1 |
Chapter 2 (week 5)
- Kepler's laws (especially the 3rd)
- Newton's law of gravity
- escape speed
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ellipse
escape speed
astronomical unit
eccentricity
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Chapter 3 (week 2)
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- energy and wavelength
- Blackbody (thermal) radiation or spectrum
- Wein's Law
- Stefan's Law
- Doppler effect
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black body curve
frequency
wavelength
speed of light
Doppler effect
Wein's Law
Stefan's Law
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Chapter 4 (week 2 & 3)
- Spectral lines (emission, absorption)
- Types of spectra (emission, absorption, continuous)
- Kirchoff's laws (formation of spectra)
- Atomic structure in relation to the formation of
spectral lines
- Spectrum of Hydrogen
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- absorption lines
- emission lines
- continuous spectrum
- ground state
- photons
- ionized
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Chapter 17 (week 3, 4,5 & 6)
- trigonometric parallax
- flux, luminosity and radius
- magnitudes
- apparent magnitude, absolute magnitude, and
distance
- spectral classification
- the HR diagram
- main sequence,
- luminosity classification
- spectroscopic parallax
- binary systems
- masses in binary systems (Kepler's 3rd law revisited)
- mass-luminosity relation
- mass-lifetime relation
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- parsec
- apparent magnitude
- absolute magnitude
- main sequence, giants, supergiants, white dwarfs
- spectral class
- luminosity class
- HR diagram
- visual binary
- optical binary
- spectroscopic binary
- spectrum binary
- astrometric binary
- eclipsing binary
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