PHYSICS 2411 COLLEGE ASTRONOMY

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  1. ASTRONOMY OVERVIEW
  2. STELLAR ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
    (DBBH: Chapters 1, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 27)
    1. Stellar Magnitudes
      1. Apparent Magnitude
        1. Photometric Systems
        2. Color Index
      2. Absolute Magnitude
        1. Astronomical Unit
        2. Light year
        3. parsec
    2. Electromagnetic Radiation
      1. Thermal Radiation
      2. Planck Radiation
    3. Spectra
      1. Spectral Lines
        1. Absorption Lines
        2. Emission Lines
        3. Atomic Lines
        4. Hydrogen Spectral Series
        5. Ionization Equilibrium (Saha Equation)
      2. Stellar Spectral Classes
        1. Spectral Type and Relative Line Intensity
    4. Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
  3. TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION
    (DBBH: Chapters 38)
    1. Telescopes
      1. Optical Telescopes
      2. Astronomical Seeing
      3. Light Pollution
    2. Instrumentation
      1. Imaging
        1. Astroimaging
        2. Focal Ratio
      2. Photometry
      3. Spectroscopy
        1. Spectrometer
      4. CCD Detectors
  4. NEWTONIAN GRAVITY AND BINARY STARS
    (DBBH: Chapters 9, 11, 13, 28)
    1. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
      1. Gravitational Constant
    2. Keplarian Orbits
      1. Orbital Elements
      2. Elliptical Orbits
      3. Kepler's Laws
    3. Binary Stars
      1. Stellar Mass
  5. STELLAR PROPERTIES
    1. Luminosity
    2. Surface Temperature
      1. Effective Temperature
    3. Radii
    4. Mass
      1. Solar Mass
      2. Mass-Luminsoity Relationship
    5. Chemical Composition
      1. Metalicity
      2. Abundances
  6. STELLAR STRUCTURE
    (DBBH: Chapters 6,10)
    1. Main-Sequence Stellar Energy Generation
      1. Nuclear fusion
        1. Nuclear Binding Energy
      2. Proton-Proton Chain
      3. CNO Cycle
    2. Energy Transport
      1. Radiative Transfer
      2. Convection
    3. Hydrostatic Equilibrium
    4. Zones
      1. Core
      2. Radiative Zone
      3. Convective Zone
      4. Stellar Atmosphere
    5. Standard Solar Model
  7. STELLAR EVOLUTION
    (DBBH: Chapters 21, 22, 30, 33)
    1. Main Sequence Lifetime
    2. Stellar Nucleosynthesis
    3. Red Giant
    4. Asymptotic Giant Branch
    5. Helium Flash
      1. Electron Degenerate Matter
    6. Horizontal Branch
    7. White Dwarfs
    8. Type II Supernovae
    9. High mass stellar remnants
      1. Neutron stars
      2. Black hole
      3. General Relativity
    10. Star Clusters
    11. Star Formation
  8. GALAXIES
    (DBBH: Chapters 20, 31)
    1. Milky Way
      1. Interstellar Medium
      2. Stellar Populations
    2. Cepheid Variables and Distances
    3. Galaxy morphological classification
    4. Dark Matter
      1. Galaxy rotation curves
    5. Supermassive black holes
    6. Galaxy Groups and Clusters
  9. COSMOLOGY
    (DBBH: Chapters 40)
    1. Hubble's Law
      1. Redshifts
      2. Metric expansion of space
      3. Dark energy
      4. Age of the Universe
    2. Large Scale Structure
    3. Cosmic microwave backgrond radiation
    4. Contents of the Universe
      1. Big Bang nucleosynthesis
      2. Content percentages
      3. Elementary particles
      4. Four Fundamental forces
    5. Timeline of the Big Bang