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Astro 4: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

Astro 4: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe. *Rick Nolthenius Call me “Rick”. *Office: 706a 479-6506 *email: rinolthe@cabrillo.edu *visit my extremely excellent website!.

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Astro 4: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

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  1. Astro 4: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe *Rick Nolthenius Call me “Rick”. *Office: 706a 479-6506 *email: rinolthe@cabrillo.edu *visit my extremely excellent website!

  2. Textbook – “The Cosmic Perspective – Stars, Galaxies, Cosmology” – Bennett, Donahue, Schneider, and Voit; 5th Edition • ~$70 new in the bookstore. No used ones around yet. • I will try to get one copy on reserve in the library

  3. Grading • 6 mult. choice quizzes based on my lectures, with help from the textbook. - ~10 questions each - closed notes • ~2 video quizzes; after seeing ~45 min video program. Take notes and use them for your mult. choice quiz, about 20 questions each • Final Exam: 50 mult. choice questions. You may have a single 8x10 sheet of paper crammed with all the notes you can muster! • Your two lowest scores will be dropped. That includes no-shows • Because…No make-ups • Extra Credit possibilities • Buy 10 green narrow scantron sheets from the book store. $3. Cheap! Keep them in your notebook along with a pencil.

  4. What will We Do in Astro 4? • We start with the nature of Science, reason, and the principles of clear thinking. My own “Chapter 0” on the principles of clear thinking and scientific method • Some basic ideas: Forces, Gravity, the nature of light and matter • The sun, our up-close look at a typical star • Then to boldly go, on to the stars! How they’re born, their lives, their deaths, and how death gives rise to new life • Violence in Space! Supernovae, black holes, gamma ray bursts • Then galaxies and the supermassive black holes at their heart • The Big Bang origin of the Universe. Inflation, Dark Matter, Dark Energy • The idea of the MultiVerse, the Anthropic principle and the intimate connection between alternate universes and the nature of life • I’ll stress the observational facts and how we use scientific inference to arrive at ideas, and to test them to arrive at our current theories of the Universe. Exams will stress getting a picture of processes and the ‘why’ behind what we see, not so much on memorized factoids.

  5. We’ll learn clear thinking

  6. galileo The discovery of forces, gravity, and light

  7. Sun in h-alpha The Sun – our close up look at a star

  8. Star birth bubble The Birth of Stars in Interstellar Clouds

  9. Stars, clusters Star clusters and stellar evolution

  10. pn The death of stars

  11. We’re doomed

  12. Supernovae and Stellar death and birth

  13. Star infall to bh

  14. Our Milky Way Galaxy

  15. Galaxy Evolution

  16. Quasar gallery

  17. dm Dark Matter – What it is not, and might be

  18. historyOfUniverse Dark Energy and the Origin of the Universe

  19. I want to believe

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