Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy 4th Edition

Table of contents : Table of Contents Preface Position Motion Seasonal Stars Solar vs. Sidereal Day Ecliptic Star Charts Kepler's Second Law Kepler's Third Law Newton's Laws and Gravity Apparent and Absolute Magnitudes of Stars The Parsec Parallax and Distance Spectroscopic Parallax Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum of Light Telescopes and Earth's Atmosphere Observing the Universe with Multiple Telescopes Luminosity, Temperature, and Size Blackbody Radiation Types of Spectra Light and Atoms Observing the Invisible - Molecular Excitations and Synchrotron Radiation Analyzing Spectra Doppler Shift The Cause of Moon Phases Predicting Moon Phases Path of the Sun Seasons Observing Retrograde Motion Earth's Changing Surface Greenhouse Effect Formation of Planets in the Solar System Sizing Up the Planets Comparing the Surfaces of Planets Sun Size H-R Diagram Star Formation and Lifetimes Binary Stars Detecting Extrasolar Planets with the Doppler Method Detecting Exoplanets with the Transit Method Stellar Evolution Milky Way Scales Galaxy Classification Dark Matter Looking at Distant Objects Expansion of the Universe Hubble-Lemaitre Law Making Sense of the Universe and Expansion Expansion, Lookback Times, and Distances Detecting Exoplanets with Gravitational Microlensing The Big Bang