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Astronomy for Physical Science 112

Lesson 1: Introduction

Key terms with links

Tahsiri: Lecture notes :

Kenealy: Read chapters (1-6).

Please click on the Virtual library www reference guides after the red arrow for further Discussions and Illustrations on the important terms relevant to my lectures.


Virtual library www Reference Guides

a) Illustrations(1) Scientific notation (2) Scientific notation (3) Scientific notation quiz (4) Math skills review and scientific notation (5) Power of 10

b) Illustrations(1) Atom and the Nucleus (2) The Nucleus (3) Atom (4) Atom (5) The Atom, Fission and Fusion (6) A Sense of Time and Scale in the Universe (7) Basic geometry (8) Astronomical distances (9) Astronomical distaces (10) Astronomical distances (11) Stellar distances (12) Parallax (13) Distance to stars (14) Motion of the stars

c) Illustrations(1) Light year (2) How far is a light-year? (3) The speed of light (4) A Trip through the Universe
at the Speed of Light
(5) Light year simulation (Click on chapter 1 by Kaufmann)

d) Illustrations(1) Milky Way Galaxies

e) Illustrations(1) Cartesian coordinate (2) Cartesian coordinate (3) Celestial coordinates (4) Celestial coordinate (5) Celestial coordinates (6) Celestial coordinates

f) Illustrations(1) Frame of reference (2) Frame of reference (3) Frame of reference

g) Illustrations(1) Relative velocity (2) Velocity and Speed

h) Illustrations(1) Angular speed

i) Illustrations(1) Plotting an equation

 

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