Winter 2006 Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 - Class Overview I - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 2 - Class Overview II - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 3 - Astronomy without a Telescope, Celestial Motions, Coordinates - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 4 - Forces, Orbits, Kepler's laws - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 5 - Energy, Binding Energy - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 6 - Parallax, Cepheids, HR Diagram - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 7 - Distance Determinations, Type Ia Supenovae, Hubble's Constant - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 8 - Electromagnetic Radiation, Blackbody Radiation, Greenhouse Effect - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 9 - Virial Theorem, Bohr Atom, Emission and Absorption Spectra - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 10 - Stellar Spectroscopic Analysis, Binary Mass Determinations - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 11 - More Binaries, Extra-Solar Planets - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 12 - The Interstellar Medium, Star Formation - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 13 - Pressure, Hydrostatic Equilibrium, Minimum Star Mass - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 14 - Main Sequence, Hydrogen Fusion, Sunspots - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 15 - Solar Neutrinos, CNO Cycle, Massive stars - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 16 - Final Evolution of Low Mass Stars, White Dwarfs - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 17 - Final Evolution of Massive Stars, Core Collapse Supernovae - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 18 - Supernova Characteristics, Novae, Type Ia Supernovae - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 19 - Accreting X-Ray Binaries, Gamma-Ray Bursts - PDF - Powerpoint