Astronomy 161 - Winter 2008
Professor Terndrup
1/30/08
Tools for Astrophysics #2
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Reading: Chapter 4, sections 4.5 and 4.6.
Vocabulary terms and key concepts:
- luminosity
- temperature
- Kelvin temperature scale
- spectrum
- Blackbody or Planck spectrum
- Stefan's Law
- flux
- Stefan-Boltzmann constant
- Wien's law
- inverse-square law of brightness
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