Lecture Slides for the Entire Course
  
Math
02-01 Scientific Notation – definition
02-02 Scientific Notation – examples
02-03 Rounding off numbers
02-04 Dimensions and Units
02-06 Conversion Factors
13-01 Average and Median values
30-02 Useful Formulas
The Scientific Method
05-01 How do we Learn?
05-02 The Scientific Method
10-01 Breaking the Rules of Science – I
10-02 Breaking the Rules of Science – II
10-03 Breaking the Rules of Science – III
The Earth, the Moon, and the Sky
05-03 Phases of the Moon – exploration
05-04 Phases of the Moon – evidence
05-06 Phases of the Moon – explanation
07-01 Origin of the Moon
07-02 Gravity
10-05 Measuring the Radius of the Earth
06-01 Seasons on Earth – exploration
06-02 Seasons on Earth – evidence
06-03 Seasons on Earth – clues
06-04 Seasons on Earth – explanation
06-05 Seasons on Earth – model
08-04 Why are Sunsets Red?
08-01 The Celestial Sphere
08-02 The Zodiacal Constellations
08-03 Visualizing the Sky from Earth
12-02 Why is the Sky Dark at Night?
The Solar System
09-01 Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
09-02 Geometry of the Solar System
11-01 An Earth-centered Solar System
11-02 A Sun-centered Solar System
12-01 How Bright is the Sun?
12-03 Radioactive Decay
13-02 The Solar Nebula
13-04 The Epoch of Planet Building
The Planets
13-03 Bodies of the Solar System
14-08 What is a Planet?
14-01 The Terrestrial Planets
14-02    Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Moon
16-17 The Jovian Planets
16-18    The Jovian Moons
16-19    Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Atoms and Spectra
17-01 Waves – the E-M Spectrum
17-02 Waves – Frequency and Wavelength
17-03 Visualizing Waves
18-01 What are Atoms?
18-02 What do we see from Atoms?
18-03 Quantum Mechanics
19-01 Visible light and Spectra
19-02 Continuum, Absorption & Emission
  
Living Stars
19-03 What defines a Star?
20-01 Howd do we observe a Star?
20-02 Spectral Types and Temperatures
20-03 Spectral Colours
21-01 Nuclear Energy
21-02 Fission
21-03 Fusion
21-04 How does the Sun Burn?
22-01 Doppler Shift
22-02 Binary Stars
23-01 The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
23-02 Stellar Radii
23-03 Size and the H-R Diagram
Dying Stars
24-01 Stellar Death
24-02 End-States for Stars
24-03 White Dwarfs
25-01 Neutron Stars
25-01 Supernovae
25-02 Pulsars
26-01 Black Holes
26-02 Lensing
26-03 Observing Black Holes
Galaxies
27-01 The Shapley-Curtis Debate
29-01 Characterizing Galaxies
29-02 Galaxies – Irregulars
29-03 Galaxies – Spirals
29-04 Galaxies – Mergers
29-05 Galaxies – Ellipticals
The Universe
01-01 The size of the Universe – I
01-02 The size of the Universe – II
01-03 The size of the Universe – III
04-01 Scale model of the Universe
04-02 The Speed of Light
04-03 The Age of the Universe – I
04-04 The Age of the Universe – II
04-05 The Age of the Universe – III
04-06 The Form of the Universe
27-02 Hubble's Law and Redshift
28-01 Our Three-Dimensional Universe
28-02 Does the Universe have an Edge?
28-03 Space is Curved
28-04 Expansion of the Universe
28-05 Fate of the Universe
28-06 String Theory