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Astronomy

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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 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. view allocation of credits
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:	Information prepared by lacturer

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 WYK TU W TH FR
Type of class:	Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators:	Grzegorz Pojmański
Group instructors:	Grzegorz Pojmański
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Examination

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