The Final Exam is scheduled for Wednesday April 11 , 6 - 8 PM in the Saunders Fieldhouse A minimalist course review The 2001 final exam The 2002 final exam The 2003 final exam

Winter 2007 lectures are in ATAC 2001 Wednesday Evening 7 - 9 PM starting January 3 2007

Excellent web site covering these topics at this level and with lots of images etc. are ... Astronomynotes.com The Nature of the Universe Stars and Galaxies

• Administrative details (including grading scheme ) read this !!
• Reading Schedule Something to pace yourself by.

1. Some Things you Should Know

   • Gravity ... Text : 471-473 Section 20.3 "Black Holes"
   • Light ... Text : 92-97 Section 6.2 "Electromagnetic Waves"
   • Thermodynamics ... Text : 123-127 Section 7.2 "Gases"
   • Heat Transfer ... Text : 136-137 Section 7.5 "Internal Heat in Planets"
   • Atoms and Nuclei ... Text : 132-133 Section 7.4 "Nuclear Reactions and Radioactivity"
   • Particle Physics ... Text : not covered
   • Laws of Thermodynamics ( optional ) ... Text : not covered

2. Stellar Properties

   • Distance from Earth ... Text : 362-363 Section 16.2 "The Distances of Stars"
   • Luminosity and Brightness ... Text : 365-369 Section 16.4 "The Brightnesses of Stars"
   • Radius ... Text : not covered
   • Temperature ... Text : 127-129 Section 7.3 "Radiation and Matter"
   • Spectral Classes ... Text : 369-376 Section 16.5 "Stellar Spectra"
   • Tutorial on Stellar Properties - How to use a set of graphs that describe the relationships between the various properties.
     • Graph reading exercise with answers
     • Mathematical Equations for Stellar Properties (optional)
   • Hertzsprug-Russell Diagrams ... Text : 377-378 Section 16.6 "H-R Diagrams"
   • Stellar Masses and Eclipsing Binaries ... Text : 378-380 Section 16.7 "Stellar Masses"

3. Our Star the Sun

   • Measured Quantities ... Text : 386 Section 17.1 "The Internal Structure of the Sun"
   • The Interior of the Sun ... Text : 386-389 Section 17.2 "The Sun's Energy"
   • Heat Transfer ... Text : 389-392
   • Summary of Stellar Structure ... Text : 393-403 Section 17.3 "The Outer Layers of the Sun"
   • Sunspots, Flares and Prominences ... Text : 403-407 Section 17.4 "The Sunspot Cycle"

4. The Evolution of Stars

   • The Mass Luminosity Relation ... Text : 379-380 Section 16.7 "Stellar Masses"
   • Stellar Birth ... Text : 414-417 Section 18.1 "Some Important Clues" and Section 18.2 "Star Formation"
   • The Evolution of Protostars ... Text : 417-422,435-437 Section 18.3 "Protostars" and Section 18.4 "Young Stars" and Section 19.2 "Evolutionary Tracks and Star Clusters"
   • The Main Sequence Phase ... Text : 437-441 Section 19.3 "Main Sequence Stars"
   • Evolution of Low and Intermediate Mass Stars ... Text : 441-449 Section 19.4 "After the Main Sequence"
   • Evolution of High Mass Stars ... Text : 449-451
   • Star Clusters ... Text : section 19.2
   • Graph of The Evolutionary Track of a One Solar Mass Star
   • External Link ... Stellar Evolution from the University of California, San Diego
   • Powerpoint shows now available
     • Stellar Evolution ( this is nearly 4 Mb - the full thing used in class)
     • The Evolutionary Track of a One Solar Mass Star ( only 100 Kb - covers all the stuff from the HR diagram)

5. Stellar Remnants

   • White Dwarfs ... Text : 456-458 Section 20.1 "White Dwarf Stars"
   • Neutron Stars ... Text : 458-468 Section 20.2 "Neutron Stars"
   • Black Holes ... Text : 468-475 Section 20.3 "Black Holes"

6. Galaxies

   • Types of Stars and Gas ... Text : 505-513 Section 22.1 "Interstellar Matter"
   • The Milky Way : Our Galaxy ... Text : 513-529 Section 22.2 "The Shape and Size of the Galaxy" and the remainder of chapter 22.
   • Beyond the Milky Way ... Text : 534-535 Section 23.1 "The Discovery of Galaxies"
   • Types of Galaxies ... Text : 536-541 Section 23.2 "The Kinds of Galaxies"
   • Rotation Curves ... Text : 542-543
   • Powerpoint Slide Show

7. Cosmology

   • The Cosmological Principal ... Text : 600-602 Section 26.1 "Hubble's Law Revisited"
   • Open and Closed Universes ... Text : 602-607 Section 26.2 "Cosmological Models"
   • The Expanding Universe ... Text : 608-609,543-549 Section 23.3 "The Cosmic Distance Scale"
   • Implications from General Relativity ... Text : not covered
   • The Thermal History of the Universe ... Text : 609-621 Section 26.3 "The Big Bang" and the remainder of Chapter 26.
   • Powerpoint Slide Show

Black Body

Black Body

Evolution

Power popint shows