Overview of Chapter Study Guides

The following is a listing of chapters with their titles and (lists of the sorts of science concepts each contains, except where the title says it all), with links.
Chapter 1: The Scale of the Cosmos (units and measurement)
Chapter 2: The Sky (celestial sphere and motions)
Chapter 3: Lunar Tides, Phases, and Eclipses
Chapter 4: The Origin of Modern Astronomy (from earliest times to Copernicus, Tycho, and Kepler)
Chapter 5: Newton, Einstein, and Gravity (Galileo's Laws, Newton's Laws, Orbital Motion, Relativity!)
Chapter 6: Light and Telescopes (ROYGBIV, optics, atmospheric windows, neat telescope facts)
Chapter 7: Starlight and Atoms (Wien's Law, blackbody radiation, how spectra are created, Kirchoff's laws, spectral types and the Balmer thermometer)
Chapter 8: The Sun -- Our Star
Chapter 9: Measuring Stars (trigonometric parallax, distance modulus, the H-R diagram, spectroscopic parallax)
Chapter 10: Binary Stars (and finding stellar masses directly)
Chapter 11: The Interstellar Medium (21-cm radiation, densities, molecules, great visuals!)
Chapter 12: The Formation of Stars
Chapter 13: The Life Cycles of Stars
Chapter 14: The Deaths of Stars
Chapter 15: Neutron Stars, Black Holes, etc.
Chapter 16: The Milky Way -- Our Galaxy
Chapter 17: Other Galaxies
Chapter 18: Peculiar Galaxies
Chapter 19: Cosmology and the Big Bang
Chapter 20: Origin of the Solar System
Chapter 21: The Earth
Chapter 22: The Moon and Mercury
Chapter 23: Venus and Mars
Chapter 24: Jupiter and Saturn
Chapter 25: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Chapter 26: Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets




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