ASTR 101, Introduction to Astronomy for Non-Majors

Spring 2024

Here we have summary notes of each of the lectures.

My summary notes:

• Lecture 1: The scale of the universe
• Lecture 2: The sky as we see it
• Lecture 3: The cause of the seasons
• Lecture 4: The Moon and eclipses
• Lecture 5: Ancient astronomy; geocentric vs. heliocentric
• Lecture 6: Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo
• Lecture 7: Motion and Newton's laws
• Lecture 8: Newton's law of gravity
• Lecture 9: The terrestrial planets
• Lecture 10: Planetary atmospheres
• Lecture 11: The Jovian planets
• Lecture 12: Asteroids and comets
• Lecture 13: Formation of the Solar System
• Lecture 14: Light and the EM spectrum
• Lecture 15: Atoms and isotopes
• Lecture 16: Doppler shifts and telescopes
• Lecture 17: The Sun
• Lecture 18: Stars as a function of their mass
• Lecture 19: Evolution of low-mass stars
• Lecture 20: Evolution of high-mass stars
• Lecture 21: White dwarfs and neutron stars
• Lecture 22: Black holes
• Lecture 23: The Milky Way galaxy
• Lecture 24: Galaxies and the distance ladder
• Lecture 25: Cosmology
• Lecture 26: Dark matter and dark energy
• Lecture 27: Life in the universe

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