Astronomy 110

SURVEY OF ASTRONOMY

Joshua Barnes

Fall 1995

Course Information

• Text: Discovering The Universe (3rd edition) by William Kaufmann
• Time: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 11:30 to 12:20
• Place: Physical Sciences Building, room 217

Course Outline

• The Solar System
  • A Tour of Outer Space
  • The Sky From Earth
  • Ancient Astronomy
  • Models of the Solar System
  • Kepler's Laws
  • Mass, Momentum & Gravity
  • Dynamics & the Solar System
  • Planetary Atmospheres
  • The Terrestrial Planets
  • The Giant Planets
  • Satellites of the Giants
  • Planetary Rings
  • Asteroids & Comets
• Stars
  • Telescopes
  • The Nature of Light
  • Spectral Lines
  • Stellar Distances
  • Luminosities & Temperatures
  • Composition of Stars
  • Masses & Radii
  • Energy From Matter
  • Main Sequence Stars
  • The Sun
  • Red Giants
  • White Dwarfs
  • Supernovae
  • Neutron Stars
  • Black Holes
• Galaxies and Cosmology
  • Distance in the Galaxy
  • Nature of the Milky Way
  • Other Galaxies
  • The Realm of the Nebulae
  • Dark Matter
  • Peculiar Galaxies
  • Active Galaxies
  • The `Big Bang'
  • Models of the Universe
• Beginnings
  • Galaxy Formation
  • Star Formation
  • Origin of Solar System
  • Life in the Universe
• Review