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Math Scientific Notation – definition Scientific Notation – examples Rounding off numbers Dimensions and Units Conversion Factors Average and Median values Useful Formulas The Scientific Method How do we Learn? The Scientific Method Breaking the Rules of Science – I Breaking the Rules of Science – II Breaking the Rules of Science – III Defining a Straight Line Statistics for Laboratory Experiments       The Earth, Moon, and Sky Phases of the Moon – exploration Phases of the Moon – evidence Phases of the Moon – explanation Origin of the Moon Gravity Measuring the Radius of the Earth Seasons on Earth – exploration Seasons on Earth – evidence Seasons on Earth – clues Seasons on Earth – explanation Seasons on Earth – model Why are Sunsets Red? The Celestial Sphere The Zodiacal Constellations Visualizing the Sky from Earth Why is the Sky Dark at Night? The Solar System Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion Geometry of the Solar System An Earth-centered Solar System A Sun-centered Solar System How Bright is the Sun? Radioactive Decay The Solar Nebula The Epoch of Planet Building The Planets Bodies of the Solar System What is a Planet? The Terrestrial Planets    Mercury    Earth    Venus    Mars    Moon The Jovian Planets    The Jovian Moons    Jupiter    Saturn    Uranus    Neptune    Pluto

Atoms and Spectra Waves – the E-M Spectrum Waves – Frequency and Wavelength Visualizing Waves What are Atoms? What do we see from Atoms? Quantum Mechanics Visible Light and Spectra Continuum, Absorption & Emission Images and Spectra Living Stars What defines a Star? The Magnitude System of Brightness How do we Observe a Star? Spectral Types and Temperatures Spectral Colours Nuclear Energy Fission Fusion How does the Sun Burn? Doppler Shift Binary Stars The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram Stellar Radii Size and the H-R Diagram Dying Stars Stellar Death End-States for Stars White Dwarfs Neutron Stars Supernovae Pulsars Black Holes Lensing Observing Black Holes Galaxies The Shapley-Curtis Debate Characterizing Galaxies Galaxies – Irregulars Galaxies – Spirals Galaxies – Mergers Galaxies – Ellipticals The Universe The size of the Universe – I The size of the Universe – II The size of the Universe – III Scale model of the Universe The Speed of Light The Age of the Universe – I The Age of the Universe – II The Age of the Universe – III The Form of the Universe Hubble's Law and Redshift Our Three-Dimensional Universe Does the Universe have an Edge? Space is Curved Expansion of the Universe Fate of the Universe String Theory

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