Test #2 - Wednesday, March 2

Review notes, chapter summaries, homework assignments, chapter questions.

Chapter 4:

• speed, velocity, acceleration, gravity

• mass, weight, momentum

• Newton

• three laws of motion

• Universal Gravitation

• Conservation of momentum, angular momentum, energy

• Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin temperature scales

• gravitational potential energy, orbital velocity, escape velocity

• Newton's version of Kepler's third law and masses

• gravity and tides

Chapter 5:

• light as wave, particle, photons

• wavelength x frequency = speed of light = 3 x 10⁵ km/sec

• electromagnetic spectrum

• Planck curve for thermal radiation, color and temperature

• Kirchhoff laws for continuous, emission line, and absorption spectra

• Doppler shift and radial velocity

• atoms, electron orbitals, energy transitions, molecules, states of matter

• spectra and temperature, gas composition

Chapter 6:

• refracting and reflecting telescopes

• Newtonian, Cassegrain, Nasmyth, Coude designs

• light gathering, angular resolution, magnification powers

• imaging and spectroscopy

• interferometry for high angular resolution, CHARA Array

• atmospheric transmission, turbulence, light pollution

• telescopes for radio, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, gamma-ray light

• future telescopes