Course42 lectures36 h 50 min
Astro C10 / LS C70U - Fall 2007
Alex Filippenko · University of California, Berkeley
About
Astro 10 - Fall 2007 - A description of modern astronomy with emphasis on the structure and evolution of stars, galaxies, and the Universe. Additional topics optionally discussed include quasars, pulsars, black holes, and extraterrestrial communication, etc. Individual instructor's synopses available from the department. Video of lectures available at webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.
Introduction to General Astronomy
Lectures
- A Grand Tour of the Cosmos
- Journey Through Space and Time
- Light -- The Supreme Informant - NOTE: In the last two minutes of lecture, I said that a ...
- The Fingerprints of Atoms
- Black-body Radiation
- Tools of the Trade
- Twinkling; Lunar Phases
- Glorious Total Solar Eclipses
- Celestial Phenomena
- The Copernican Revolution
- On the Shoulders of Giants (no video first 24 seconds)
- The Earth: Our Home
- The Moon, Mercury, and Venus
- Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
- Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
- Comets and Solar-System Debris
- Catastrophic Collisions
- Extra-Solar Planets; Our Sun
- Stars: Distant Suns
- Social Stars: Binaries and Clusters
- How Stars Shine: Cosmic Furnaces
- Star Clusters: Reveal Stellar Ages
- The Fate of the Sun
- The Corpses of Massive Stars
- Hearts of Darkness
- The Quest for Black Holes
- Hearts of Darkness and The Quest for Black Holes
- Black Holes, Gamma Rey Bursts and The Milky Way Galaxy (cliips played during class have been removed)
- Other Galaxies and The Dark Side of Matter
- The Dark Side of Matter and The Expansion of the Universe
- Quasars - Cosmic Powerhouses
- In the Belly of the Beast
- Cosmology and the Dark Night Sky
- The Age of the Universe
- The Geometry of the Universe
- Einstein's Biggest Blunder?
- Echoes of the Big Bang
- The Contents of the Universe
- In the Beginning
- The Ultimate Free Lunch?
- A Multiverse? The Search for Life
- Interstellar Travel; Conclusion
Credits and licence
- Institution
- University of California, Berkeley
- Teacher
- Alex Filippenko
- Year
- 2007
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Astronomy and space
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Licence
- Internet Archive states no licence for it. Internet Archive's terms
- Attribution
- 2006 Regents of the University of California
- Who can watch
- Internet Archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed