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Astronomy II

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Course ID:	1100-1A23
Erasmus code / ISCED:	13.701 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0533) Physics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Astronomy II
Name in Polish:	Astronomia II
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Physics
Course groups:	Astronomy (1st level); 1st year courses
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language:	Polish
Main fields of studies for MISMaP:	astronomy
Short description:	Lecture on basic astronomical topics. Part II.
Full description:	Program: 1. Astronomical co-ordinate systems on the celestial sphere - horizontal, equatorial I, equatorial II, ecliptic, galactic, other. 2. diurnal motion of the celestial sphere; - description using different co-ordinate systems. 3. Spherical trigonometry - equations; parallactic triangle, co-ordinate conversions, other examples; 4. Time and calendar - sidereal time, diurnal and annual sun's path; solar time - apparent, mean, zone. - year: tropical, sidereal; moon motion; month: sidereal, synodic, other. 5. Solar eclipse; lunar eclipse - conditions of occurrence. 6. Stellar radiation magnitudes; EM radiation: intensity, energy flux, luminosity; black body 7. Celestial mechanics; Two body problem - dynamic laws and two body problem; center-of-mass motion approach; - Kepler laws; orbits: elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic 8. Methods of discovering planets in remote stellar systems; Description by Grzegorz Pojmański, Feb 2008
Bibliography:	1. Eugeniusz Rybka - Astronomia Ogólna 2. References prepared by tutor.

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span:	2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO CW TU W WYK TH CW FR
Type of class:	Classes, 30 hours, 40 places more information Lecture, 15 hours, 40 places more information
Coordinators:	Grzegorz Pojmański
Group instructors:	Grzegorz Pojmański, Maciej Urbanowicz
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Examination Lecture - Examination

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