Here are some topics and terms you should understand from the lectures and Chapters 4-9 in Seeds, up to nuclear energy in the Sun. Also be sure to look over things from the previous midterm, some concepts (like small angle formula, Kepler's Laws) we use over again and again. This is a guide for you to get an idea of what could be on the midterm. Be sure to study your notes, the text, and my on-line lecture notes (since some of this is not in the book).
| Isaac Newton | focus | ionization states (I, II, &c) |
| mechanics | focal distance | thermal blackbody radiation |
| Principia | lenses & mirrors | continuous, emission, absorption spectra |
| Newton's Laws | inverted images | spectral classes (O,B,A,F,G,K,M) |
| inertia | focal plane | doppler effect |
| force | objective lens | physical properties of Sun |
| reaction | primary mirror | photosphere, chromosphere, corona |
| velocity | eyepiece | sunspots, prominences, flares |
| acceleration | refractor vs. reflector | convection cells |
| momentum | Newtonian vs. Cassegrain | solar wind |
| angular momentum | Schmidt-Cassegrain | parallax |
| Universal Gravitation | Schmidt camera | flux & luminosity |
| centripetal force | light gathering power | absolute visual magnitude |
| Kepler's 3rd (Newton's) | resolving power & resolution | distance modulus |
| center of mass (barycenter) | magnifying power | luminosity-temperature-radius |
| weight vs. mass | image brightness | mass-luminosity |
| Newton's calculus | interferometer | H-R diagram |
| electromagnetic wave | detectors | main sequence |
| photon | CCD camera | dwarf, giant, supergiant |
| electromagnetic spectrum | spectrograph | visual, spectroscopic, eclipsing binaries |
| infrared & ultraviolet | atom & molecules | gravitational collapse |
| X-rays & Gamma Rays | electron, proton, neutron | interstellar medium |
| radio waves | Coulomb force | nebulae |
| atmospheric windows | electric charge | emission and reflection nebulae |
| electron microscope | electron orbits | dust |
| James Clerk Maxwell | interference | atomic hydrogen (H I) |
| fields | quantum mechanics | 21cm line |
| four fundamental forces | energy levels | molecular clouds |
| optics | ground state | molecular lines |
| reflection & refraction | kinetic & potential energy | ideal gas law |
| normal | Rydberg energy | gravitational heating |
| ray | quantum numbers n, l, m | protostar |
| index of refraction | spin | radiative cooling, convection, conduction |
| dispersion | shells & orbitals | magnetic pressure |
| spectrum | Pauli Exclusion Principle | protostellar disk |
| spectroscope | transitions & spectral lines | nuclear fusion & fission |
| telescope | line series (Lyman, Balmer, etc.) | mass-energy relation |
| optical axis | ionization & recombination | proton-proton cycle |
Remember, the midterm is Wednesday Mar 27 in class. Bring a calculator.
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Steven T. Myers - Last revised 26Mar96