Descriptive Astronomy II

These are the lecture notes for Physics 1412 - Descriptive Astronomy II, taught at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Much of the material presented here has be adapted from the following textbooks:

Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy, by Arney
Abel's Exploration of the Universe, 7^th edition, by Morrison, Wolff and Fraknoi
The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, by Shu

These notes are not intended as a replacement for these books, nor should they be used as such.

The notes are organized by topic and subtopic. Each topic resides in it's own file, with subtopics denoted within each topical file.

Syllibus

Light
Telescopes
The Sun
Solar Interior
Stellar Properties
Stellar Spectrums
Binary Stars
Hertzsprung Russel Diagram
Variable Stars
The Birth of Stars
Stellar Evolution
White Dwarfs
Neutron Stars
Black Holes
The Milky Way
Galaxies
Large Scale Structure of the Universe
Cosmology
Standard Model of Cosmology

Comments to: D-Suson@tamuk.edu

Last updated: Jan. 11, 1998.