Week 6

Text Book   https://www.teachastronomy.com/textbook/

Readings :  

Birth and death of Stars  Chapter 13  https://www.teachastronomy.com/textbook/Star-Birth-and-Death/Star-Birth-and-Death/

Galaxies Chapter 15

https://www.teachastronomy.com/textbook/Galaxies/The-Milky-Way-Galaxy/

Videos ( https://www.teachastronomy.com/videos/ ) :

 

Assignments:

Day 1

HR diagram Explorer

Stellar Evolution Simulator

Stars   Quiz2      Quiz3(stellar Evolution)

 

Videos from TEXT:  Starts, Stars 2  , and Star3 from https://www.teachastronomy.com/videos/Stars/

 

Videos:  Stars and Life 5 min, Star Formation 7 min, The Sun 14 min, properties of Stars 9 min, Stellar Evolution 8 min, Nucleosynthesis 17 min

Videos  Rochester   Wk2 L3(1,2)  L4(1,2,3)  L6(2,3,4)

 Late Stages of Evolution 10 min, Supernovas 10 min, Pulsars 13 min,  Black Holes 10 min, Testing Gravity 14 min

 

 

 

Day 2

Galaxies, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and intro to Cosmology

    Quiz1

  Quiz2

Videos  Rochester   wk3 L1(1-6) L2(1-4)   L3(2)

Cosmology quiz

Planetary Transit and radial velocity simulators

 

http://astro.unl.edu/naap/esp/animations/transitSimulator.html 


http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/extrasolarplanets/radialvelocitysimulator.html