Astronomy
General data
Course ID: | 1100-3N21 |
Erasmus code / ISCED: | (unknown) / (unknown) |
Course title: | Astronomy |
Name in Polish: | Astronomia |
Organizational unit: | Faculty of Physics |
Course groups: |
(in Polish) Nauczanie fizyki; przedmioty dla II roku |
Course homepage: | http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/astronomia.html |
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
2.00
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Language: | Polish |
Main fields of studies for MISMaP: | astronomy |
Short description: |
Basic Astronomy lecture |
Full description: |
Programm: Astronomical observations 1. Sources of information on Universe - electromagnetic radiation, influence of atmosphere, dust, metorites,nutrinos, gravitational waves. 2. Modern telescopes and detectors. 3. Observational methods (astrometry, photometry, spectroscopy, interferometry, polarimetry) Spherical Astronomy 4. Astronomical co-ordinate systems on the celestial sphere - horizontal, equatorial I, equatorial II, ecliptic, galactic, other. 5. Diurnal motion of the celestial sphere; - description using different co-ordinate systems. 6. Spherical trigonometry - equations; parallactic triangle, co-ordinate conversions, other examples; 7. 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. Cosmography - Astronomical objects 8. Distances, sizes, location - Solar System, stars, Milky Way, galaxies, isotropy, quasars, cosmic microwave background radiation. 9.Planets and their structure, moons, planetiods, dust, solar wind 10. Earth as a planet 11. Solar and lunar eclipses - conditions 12. Mechanics of planetary systems - 2-body problem, laws of dynamics, center of mass, Kepler laws, parabolic, elliptic, hiperbolic orbits. Stellar astronomy 13. Stellar radiation - magnitudes; EM radiation: intensity, energy flux, luminosity; black body 14. Stars - masses, sizes, temperatures, luminosity, chemical composition,flux, energy sources, stellar interior structure, evolution; white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes. 15. Stellar systems - binary, clusters 16. Interstellar matter - gas, its components, dust, magnetic fields. 17. Galactic structure - stellar subsystems, motions of the stars 18. Morphology of galaxies (E,S,S0,Ir); activity (radiogalaxies, Seyferts, quasars) 19. systems of galaxies - Local Group, galaxy clusters, superclusters, voids. 20. Universe - Hubble law, thermal evolution of Universe, primordial nucleosynthesis, microwave radiation |
Bibliography: |
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Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)
Time span: | 2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16 |
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Type of class: |
Lecture, 30 hours
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Coordinators: | Grzegorz Pojmański | |
Group instructors: | Grzegorz Pojmański | |
Students list: | (inaccessible to you) | |
Examination: | Examination |
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