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Lecture
37: Conclusions and Review
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| Astronomy
101/103 |
Terry
Herter, Cornell University
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Lecture
Topics
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- Some
Conclusions
- Review
of potential exam topics
- These
are NOT guaranteed to be comprehensive
- Slide
show
- Evaluations
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What Should You
Take from this
Course?
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- A
perspective about planet earth, the universe, and us.
- A
desire to inquire and learn more about the universe around
us.
- An
understanding of the critical (and quantitative) analysis
of the world.
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Quantitative Exam
"Questions"
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- How
big, how small, how massive
- From
Atoms to the Universe
- Blackbody
emission
- Wien's
law
- Stefan-Boltzmann
Law
- Luminosity
- Parallax
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Quantitative Exam
"Questions"
(cont'd)
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- Inverse
square law
- Magnitudes
and the distance modulus
- Absolute
and apparent magnitude
- Habitability
of Planets
- Applying
the balance of powers
- Doppler
effect
- Energy
vs. wavelength for photons
- Distance,
velocity and time
- Black
Hole Size
- What's
up tonight?
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Conceptual
Questions
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- Atom
and Spectra
- Kirchhoff's
laws
- Types
of Telescopes
- Energy
Transfer
- What's
up in the sky "tonight"
- How
the sky changes over a night
- How
the sky changes over the year
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Conceptual
Questions
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- Stars
- Spectral
sequence
- Rough
lifetimes of stars
- H-R
diagram
- Energy
generation in stars
- The
life of a star
- Stellar
end-products
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Conceptual
Questions
(cont'd)
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- Special
Relativity
- Postulates
and Consequences
- Rough
velocity addition
-
Supernovae
and the collapse of stars
- Neutron
stars and pulsars
- General
Relativity
- Postulates
and Consequences
- "Proofs"
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Conceptual
Questions
(cont'd)
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- Types
of star clusters and properties
- Open
(Galactic), Globular, O/B Associations
- Properties
of the Milky Way
- Types
of galaxies and properties
- Hubble's
law
- Why
W, and Ho, and
L are important
- The
Fate of the Universe
- The
Early Universe
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Conceptual
Questions
(cont'd)
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- The
Habitability of Worlds around stars
- What
determines the ecosphere?
- Where
to look for life and why?
- How
to search fro other worlds
- Looking
for intelligent life in the universe
- Limits
to civilizations
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