Rowan's Astronomy 100 and 102 Lecture Class Notes

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Professor Rowan's
Astronomy 100 & 102
Lecture Study Notes

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	Lecture Study Notes
	AST 100: The Solar System
	The Scale of the Cosmos
	The Sky Around Us
	The Laws of Motion - (Newton & Gravity)
	Einstein & Spacetime (gravity revisted)
	Our Planetary System
	Welcome to the Solar System
	Planetary Geology - (Earth & Other Terrestrial Worlds)
	Planetary Atmospheres - (Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds)
	Jovian Planet Systems
	Asteroids, Comets, and the Kuiper Belt
	Other Planetary Systems - The New Science of Distant Worlds

	AST 102: Stars & Galaxies
	Light & Radiation (2 files): (1) LHT-&-Rad_1 -- ~\|~ (2) LHT-&-Rad_2 --
	Spectra (2 files): (1) Atomic Spectra -- ( ~\|~ (2) Stellar Spectra --
	The Sun (2 files): (1) The Sun - our star (part 1) -- ~\|~ (2) The Sun - (part 2) --
	Stellar Properties (2 files): (1) Stellar Properties -- ~\|~ H-R Diagrams & Stellar Families --
	Interstellar Medium (ISM) and Nebulae --
	Stellar Formation: The Birth of Stars --
	Stellar Evolution --
	The Death of Stars --
	The Milky Way Galaxy (3 files): [ (1) M_Way-1 -- (2) M_Way-2 -- (3) M_Way-3 ]
	Galaxies Overview & Classification (3 files): [ (1) Galaxies_A -- (2) Galaxies_B -- (3) Galaxies_C ]
	Cosmology in the 21st Century (2 files): [ (1) Cosmology_part-1 -- (2) Cosmology_part-2 ]
	Life in the Universe (2 files): (1) Life in the Universe -- ~\|~ (2) The Drake Equation --

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