
Lecture Notes
Week 2. Eclipse, Tides, Planet Densities, & the Solar System Formation
Week 3. Planets, Rings, the Moon, Escape Velocity, Atmospheres, & the Greenhouse Effect
Week 5. Distances via Cepheid Variable stars, Discovering the Andromeda Galaxy, the Sun, & Fusion
Week 7. Star lifetimes, Element Creation, Explosions, & Gamma Ray Bursts
Week 9. The night sky, Galaxies, & Synchrotron Radiation
Week 10. Galaxy velocity of recession, galaxy distances, the Hubble-Lemaitre law, the Cosmologic Principle.
Week 13. Inflation, the 4 forces of nature, String Theory, & the Anthropic Principle.
Week 13. Women Astronomers; Intelligent Civilizations in the Universe.
Week 14. Are there extra-terrestrial civilizations on Earth?