Astronomy 110

SURVEY OF ASTRONOMY

Joshua Barnes

Fall 1993

Course Information

• Text: Discovering The Universe (3rd edition) by William Kaufmann
• Time: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10:30 to 11:20
• Place: Physical Sciences Building, room 217

Course Outline

• The Solar System
  • A Tour of Outer Space
  • The Sky Seen From Earth
  • Ancient Astronomy
  • Models of Solar System
  • Kepler's Laws
  • Momentum & Gravity
  • Dynamics & Discovery
  • Planetary Atmospheres
  • Earth, Venus, & Mars
  • The Moon & Mercury
  • The Giant Planets
  • Satellites of the Giants
  • Planetary Rings
  • Asteroids & Comets
  • Origin of Solar System
• Stars
  • Telescopes
  • Distances to Stars
  • Luminosities & Colors
  • The Nature of Light
  • Spectral Lines
  • Composition of Stars
  • Double Stars
  • Energy From Matter
  • Main Sequence Stars
  • The Sun
  • Red Giants
  • White Dwarfs
  • Supernovae
  • Neutron Stars
  • Black Holes
  • Star Formation
• Galaxies and Cosmology
  • Distance in the Galaxy
  • Nature of the Milky Way
  • Other Galaxies
  • Galaxy Clustering
  • Dark Matter
  • Colliding Galaxies
  • Active Galaxies
  • Galaxy Formation
  • The `Big Bang'
  • Models of the Universe
  • The Early Universe
  • Life in the Universe