. Lecture Notes

Lecture 2: Light the Messenger

January 4

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Lecture 3: Matter

January 5

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Lecture 4: Light and Matter

January 8

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Lecture 5: Forces

January 9

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Lecture 6: Stellar Distances & Brightness

January 10

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Lecture 7: Stellar Radii and Masses

January 11

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Lecture 8: Stellar Motions

January 12

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Lecture 9: Stellar Spectra

January 16

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Lecture 10: The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

January 17

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Lecture 11: The Internal Structure of Stars

January 19

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Lecture 12: Making the Sun Shine

January 22

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Lecture 13: Energy Generation and Transport

January 23

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Lecture 14: Star Formation

January 24

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Lecture 15: The Main Sequence

January 25

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Lecture 16: The Evolution of Low-Mass Stars

January 26

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Lecture 17: The Evolution of High-Mass Stars

January 29

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Lecture 18: Supernovae

January 30

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Lecture 19: Special & General Relativity I

January 31

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Lecture 20: Special & General Relativity II

February 2

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Lecture 21: Special & General Relativity III

February 5

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Lecture 22: Extreme Stars: White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars

February 6

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Lecture 23: Black Holes

February 7

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Lecture 24: Testing Stellar Evolution

February 8

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Lecture 25: The Cosmic Distance Scale

February 9

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Lecture 26: The Realm of the Nebulae

February 12

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Lecture 27: Ingredients for a Galaxy

February 13

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Lecture 28: Spiral Galaxies

February 15

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Lecture 29: Elliptical and Irregulars

February 19

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Lecture 30: Groups and Clusters of Galaxies

February 20

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Lecture 31: Interacting Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei

February 21

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Lecture 32: The Expanding Universe

February 22

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Lecture 33: Einstein's Universe

February 23

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Lecture 34: The Big Bang

February 26

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Lecture 35: The Whispers of Creation

February 27

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Lecture 36: The First Three Minutes

February 28

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Lecture 37: Dark Matter and Dark Energy

March 1

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Lecture 38: Galaxy Formation

March 5

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Lecture 39: The Fate of the Universe

March 6

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Lecture 40: Science Fact or Science Fiction? Time Travel

March 7

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Lecture 41: Science Fact or Science Fiction? Intelligent Life in the Universe

March 8

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