Exploring the Sky

Chapters:

• Categorizing the Sky
  • Astrometry
  • Parallax
  • The Inverse Square Law
  • Flux and Luminosity
  • The Magnitude System
• Light and Energy
  • Planck, Wien, Stefan-Boltzmann Laws
  • Rayleigh-Jeans and Wien approximations
  • The UV Catastrophe
  • Quantization of Light
  • Energy Level Diagrams
• Atomic Physics
  • Emission and Absorption
  • Spectral Geometry
  • Atomic Models and Forces
  • Spectral Classification
• The Behavior of Systems
  • The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
  • The Boltzmann Equation
  • The Saha Equation
  • The Inside of a Star
• The HR Diagram
  • The Main Sequence
  • The Mass Axis