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Bryan Gaensler, C. Barth Netterfield, Ilana MacDonald

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AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Olympus Mons, Mount Everest, Oort Cloud

Ast101 lecture 3 the solar system. Solar system: a solar system consists of a star orbited by planets, moons, and lots of debris (comets, asteroids, du

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ellipse, Microsoft Powerpoint

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Angular Momentum, Afm Phase, Free Fall

First law: a object in motion remains in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. Second law: acceleration is proportional to force and inversely

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Orbital Period, Escape Velocity

Kepler"s 1st law: planet orbit the sun in an elliptical pattern, with the sun at one focus. Nothing lies at the other focus, and the sun is not right i

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Microsoft Powerpoint, Between Planets, Angular Momentum

Speed: the rate of change of position (powerpoint, slide #11) Acceleration: the rate of change of velocity (powerpoint, slide #11: any change in speed

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tide

Newton"s universal law of gravitation: the force of the two objects depends on the mass of both objects (i. e. you and the. Earth the force between the

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Angular Momentum

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Solar Minimum, Solar Maximum, Nuclear Fission

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Solar Maximum, Solar Minimum, Photosphere

Ast 101 lecture 8 the sun: the nearest star! Basic properties of the sun: the sun has a diameter of 1,392, 000 kilometers (that is 109 times the diamet

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neutrino, Photon, Electromagnetic Radiation

Putting your hand in front of our eyes: light is absorbed on your hand, this process is what allows us to see things, light is absorbed on the eye, tra

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Atomic Number, Photon, Microsoft Powerpoint

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Molecular Cloud, Protostar

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Protostar, The Frost

Ast101- lecture 14- formation of the solar system. Our solar system: planets orbit the sun, all the planets orbit in the same direction (prograde, venu

AST101H1 Lecture 15: AST101- Lecture 15- Craters

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Point Venus, Continental Drift, No Rain

Changing the surface via geological activity: there are processes that are changing the surface of a planet, craters, volcanoes, tectonics and erosion.

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Escape Velocity, Carbon Cycle, Atmospheric Pressure

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Minor-Planet Moon, Oort Cloud, Planetesimal

The dwarf planets: small bodies, orbits the sun, large enough to become spherical, hasn"t cleared out its orbit. Ceres: first dwarf planet discovered,

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Liquid Hydrogen, Earth Mass, Low Mass

Dwarf planets: orbit the sun, large enough to be spherical, don"t have a clear orbit. Terrestrial planets: made of heavy elements, nickle iron core, mo

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Metallic Hydrogen, Liquid Hydrogen, Solid Nitrogen

Saturn: much less massive than jupiter but close in sign, pressure in saturn is less. Uranus: tipped on it"s side, axis spin is pointing toward sun, as

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: No Air, Human Eye, Vega 1

If you put a 1 mm hole 2 km away the hubble scape telescope could see it. Travel times: new horizons (fastest probe at the time, 58,500 km/hr, as you g

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Doppler Spectroscopy, Exoplanet, Light Curve

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Doppler Spectroscopy, Methods Of Detecting Exoplanets, Orbital Period

Spectra and atmosphere: still not that great, can"t be exactly sure. Doppler effect for light: sources moving toward you shift to higher frequency, blu

AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Abiogenesis, Panspermia, Exoplanet