AST201H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Star System, Niels Bohr, 30 Foot Fall

• School: UTSG
• Department: Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Course: AST201H1
• Professor: Stephen Swales

Document Summary

Isaac newton discovered the laws of motion which could explain. This property allows gravity to dominate all other forces on large scales, even though it is by far the weakest force. January 17th, 2013: anything with a quantity of mass, it produces gravity. A wave of electric and magnetic fields. Light is an electromagnetic wave: electro-magnetism with a strength of 1/137 and an. Light and matter: 1814 fraunhofer detects lines in the spectrum of the sun, the solar spectrum. Blue stars are higher in temperature, typically 15,000k. The doppler effect: the frequency increases as it moves towards you and decreases as it moves away from you. The sun: diameter of the sun is approximately 110x bigger than the diameter of the. Earth: far from the largest star, there is some carbon and nitrogen to some degree in the center of the. A slight drop in core temperature leads to a large decrease in the fusion rate .