Winter 2014 Lecture Notes
Lecture 1 - Class Overview -
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Lecture 2 - Descriptive Astronomy -
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Lecture 3 - Forces, Orbits, Kepler's laws -
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Lecture 4 - Energy, Binding Energy -
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Lecture 5 - Distance Determination - Parallax, Cepheid Variables-
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Lecture 6 - Distance Determinations - HR Diagram, Type Ia Supenovae, Hubble's Constant -
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Lecture 7 - Electromagnetic Radiation, Blackbody Radiation,
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Lecture 8 - Quantum Mechanics and Spectra -
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Lecture 9 - Stellar Spectroscopic Analysis, Binary Mass Determinations -
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Lecture 10 - Interstellar Medium -
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Lecture 11 - Star Formation, Pressure -
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Lecture 12 - Hydrostatic Equilibrium, Minimum Star Mass, Hydrogen Fusion -
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Lecture 13 - CNO Cycle, Solar Surface, Solar Neutrinos
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Lecture 14 - Final Evolution of Low Mass Stars
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Lecture 15 - White Dwarfs and the Final Evolution of High Mass Stars -
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Lecture 16 - Iron Core Collapse, Neutron Stars and Nucleosynthesis -
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Lecture 17 - Supernovae (Observations) and Pulsars -
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Lecture 18 - Binary Evolution - Novae, Type Ia Supernovae, and X-ray Sources -
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Lecture 19 - Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Bursts -
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