AST101H5 Lecture Notes - Extragalactic Astronomy, Runaway Greenhouse Effect, Planetary Science
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This site also has pages giving angular momentum examples, a quick mathematics review, improving study skills, astronomy tables, and astronomy terms. All of the line drawings were done with create on my old next machine or with freehand on a wintel laptop and macintosh at home. The line art images on the screen are gif and png images. If you have comments about these notes, please email me. Plenty of updates made to most of the chapters, especially the asteroid/comet/exoplanets, other galaxies, cosmology, and extra-terrestrial life chapters as part of updating the hardcopy edition that came out in the summer of 2013. Contents (chapters + descriptions): astronomy as a science and a sense of scale, astronomy without a telescope, method for finding scientific truth. I introduce astronomy"s place in science, and give a sense of the size and time scales involved. Also discussion of the scientific method and how astrology is not a science and what makes astronomy a science.
