ASTR 1040 Accelerated Intro Astronomy 2: Stars & Galaxies (Spring 2019)

Recitation Slides

Primary Text: Cosmic Perspective, 8th edition, Bennett et al.

The lecture slides for recitation were made available to the students through the university portal. This is a reproduction of the main materials that the students saw during their recitations. Click on the links to open the lectures as Acrobat-readable pdf files. Lectures that contain movies may not show up correctly in a standard pdf viewer, so the actual movies are included as well. Nearly every lecture included some kind of practice problem: solutions are not always included, but everything needed to solve the problem comes from the lecture. In later lectures the answers were included on a separate slide.

Lecture 1: Introduction (Jan 15/16)

Lecture 2: Binary Systems (Jan 22/23)

Lecture 3: Light and Spectra (Jan 29/30)

Lecture 4: Telescopes and Special Relativity (Feb 5/6)

Lecture 5: The Sun (Feb 19/20)

Lecture 6: Flux and Magnitudes (Feb 26/27)

Lecture 7: Stars and Stuff (Mar 5/6)

Lecture 8: Compact Objects (Mar 19/20)

Lecture 9: Binary Systems...Again (Apr 2/3)

Lecture 10: Galaxies (Apr 9/10)

Lecture 11: Cosmology (Apr 23/24)

Lecture 12: Review (Apr 30/May 1)