ASTR 121, Second-Semester Introduction to Astronomy for Majors

Spring 2018

My lecture notes (PDF from PowerPoint slides):

• Lecture 1: Overview and ASTR 120 review
• Lecture 2: Stellar properties
• Lecture 3: Binary stars and H-R diagrams
• Lecture 4: Star clusters and star birth
• Lecture 5: Life as a low-mass star
• Lecture 6: Life as a high-mass star
• Lecture 7: White dwarfs
• Lecture 8: Neutron stars and pulsars
• Lecture 9: Special relativity
• Lecture 10: General relativity
• Lecture 11: Black holes
• Lecture 12: The Milky Way
• Lecture 13: Galactic recycling
• Lecture 14: Probability and statistics
• Lecture 15: The galactic center
• Lecture 16: Other galaxies
• Lecture 17: The cosmic distance ladder
• Lecture 18: Hubble's law
• Lecture 19: Galactic evolution
• Lecture 20: Active galaxies 1
• Lecture 21: Active galaxies 2
• Lecture 22: The Big Bang
• Lecture 23: Evidence for the Big Bang
• Lecture 24: Cosmic inflation
• Lecture 25: The case for dark matter
• Lecture 26: Structure formation
• Lecture 27: Dark energy and the fate of the universe

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