Winter 2007 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 - Distance Determination - Parallax, Cepheid Variables- PDF - Powerpoint

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

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

Lecture 9 - Qunatum mechanics, Bohr Atom, Emission and Absorption Spectra - PDF - Powerpoint

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

Lecture 11 - More Binaries, Interstellar Medium - PDF - Powerpoint

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

Lecture 13 - Hydrostatic Equilibrium, Minimum Star Mass, Hydrogen Fusion - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 14 - Solar Surface, Solar Neutrinos, CNO Cycle, Main Sequence PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 15 - Final Evolution of Low Mass Stars PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 16 - Final Evolution of High Mass Stars - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 17 - Novae and Supernovae - PDF - Powerpoint

Lecture 18 - High Energy Astrophysics - PDF - Powerpoint