Astronomy,Fall 2011

Overview

Telescope viewing - sizes of astronimical objects - timeline graphic - desire to extract order from disorder regularity from choas- atmospheric windows - why is the sky blue,sunset red - black body radiation - kirchoffs law - doppler shift - lesson for earth - mar-atmosphere - planet and surface temparature - gold wind patterns - equivalance principle - gravity - rules of geometry - super gaints on the h-r diagram-orbits in sphere - consequences of hydrogen - luminosity - degenacy pressure - novae - merges of glaxies - cluster - life in the earth