AST261 READING ASSIGNMENTS

This document will evolve throughout the semester, so check it often.

    The following is a chronology of some of the semester's reading assignments. Readings
designated as RJP are to be found on this web site for this course, AST261.  Readings
designated as Z&G are in the textbook by Zeilik and Gregroy.  There is more material in the
Z&G textbook than what we shall be able to cover in one semester.  For example, we are
going to skip most of the Physics Prelude; the latter are labeled  as the "P" chapters.

Before the frist class on Aug. 3, read the following for background:

RJP Chapter 1
Z&G P1-2, & Chap.  1, section 1-3D, Newton's Laws
The above will be discussed briefly mostly depending on your questions.  We then take up all
the following in chronology:

RJP Chapter 2
Z&G Appendix A10.

RJP Chapter 3
Z&G Chapter 3, section 3-1 only
Z&G  Appendix A9-2, spherical trig.

RJP Chapter 4
Z&G Chapter 3, section 3-4C, precession

RJP Chapter 5, Planetary Orbits
Z&G Chapter 1 thru page 8.
Z&G P1-1, Kepler's Laws

RJP Chapter 6, Celestial Mechanics
Z&G  Chapter 1, section B.
Z&G  Appendix A9-2, spherical trig.
Z&G  Appendix A9-4, Spherical coords.

RJP Chapter 7,  EMR & Spectroscopy
Z&G Chapter 8, selected sections; Chap. 13-1B, C thru page 253.

RJP Chapter 8, The Sun
Z&G Chapter 10

RJP Chapter 9  Nomenclature, Aberration & Parallax
Z&G Chapter 3-3, & 11-1A

RJP Chapter 10 Stellar Motions
Z&G Chapter 19-1 thru 19-3

RJP Chapter 11 Photometry
Z&G Chapter 11, 15-1

RJP Chapter 12  Spectra
Z&G Chapter 13-1 & 13-2.

RJP Chap. 13, H-R Diagram
Z&G Chap. 13-3

RJP  Chap. 14 I & II, Stellar Evolution
Z&G Chap. 15, 16, 17

RJP Chap. 15, Multiple Stars Systems
Z& G:  Cha. 18

RJP Chap. 16, Galaxies
Z&G Chap. 14, 19, 20, 21

RJP  PHY 161 Chapter 13 & 14
RJP  PHY 261 Chapters 17 & 18
Z&G  Chap.  22, 23, 25, 26.

RJP PHY161 "Quasars"
Z&G Chap 24
 

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