Presentations

Astronomy 104.

Here are the presentations used in the lecture.

THERE ARE TWO CLASSES. 

THIS IS THE PAGE FOR THE MW 4:00-4:50 CLASS (SECS. 5-6-7-8). 

(For the 2:00-2:50 class, click here.) 

Click to download the PowerPoint presentations!

After each class the day's presentations  are posted here, with the quiz questions answered.

Jan. 22, Wednesday and Jan. 27, Monday:
Intro + The Universe

Jan. 29, Wednesday:
What is in the sky, Part 1.

Feb. 3, Monday:
What is in the sky, Part 2; Constellations.

(The first one  of these, the Part 2 link, contains homework that is due on Feb. 10.;
nothing to  turn  in, but learn it to prepare  for a large number of quiz questions.)

Feb 5, Wednesday:
Angular sizes and parallax.

Feb 10, Monday:
Homework questions; Magnitudes.

Feb. 12, Wednesday:
The Sun, Part 1.

Feb. 17, Monday:
The Sun, Part 2.

Feb. 19, Wednesday:
The Sun, Part 3;

TEST 1 HERE.

 Light, Part 1.

Feb. 24, Monday:
Light and matter, Part 1.

Feb. 26, Wednesday:
Light and matter,  Part 2.

March 3, Monday:
Spectroscopy, Part 1.

March 5, Wednesday:
Spectroscopy, Part 2.

March 17, Monday:
Spectroscopy, Part 3; Stars, Part 1.

March 19, Wednesday:
Stars, Part 2.

TEST 2 HERE.
 
The HRD, Part 1.

March 24, Monday:
HRD, Part 2; Physics of Stars, Part 1.

March 26, Wednesday:
Physics of Stars, Part 2.

March 31, Monday:
White dwarfs and supernovae.

April 2, Wednesday:
Neutron stars & pulsars; ISM.

April 7, Monday:
Starbirth.

April 9, Wednesday:
Starbirth - solar nebula, Galaxies Part 1.

April 14, Monday:
Galaxies, Part 2; AGN.

April 16, Wednesday:
Extragalactic distances.

April 21, Monday:
The early Universe.

April 23, Wednesday:

More cosmology.

April 28, Monday:
Telescopes, Part 1.

April 30, Wednesday:
Telescopes, Part 2.

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