Berry College Physics and Astronomy Simulations

AST 121: The Discovery of Galaxies

  1. The Night Sky
  2. The Two Sphere Model
  3. Distance and Parallax
  4. The Cosmos
  5. Copernicus' Revolutions and the Stars
  6. The Nature of the Stars
  7. Stellar Distances
  8. Uniformity of the Stars
  9. Stellar Motions
  10. Dark Sky Riddle
  11. Models of the Milky Way
  12. Motion of the Sun
  13. Construction of the Heavens
  14. Spectroscopy
  15. Olber's Paradox
  16. Photometry, Photography
  17. Radial Velocity and Binary Stars
  18. Classification of Stellar Spectra
  19. Star Streams
  20. Statistical Astronomy
  21. Spiral Nebulae I
  22. Spiral Nebulae II
  23. Cepheid Variables
  24. The Big Galaxy
  25. Cepheids in Spiral Nebulae
  26. Galactic Rotation
  27. Absorption
  28. Special Relativity
  29. Relativistic Cosmology
  30. The Expanding Universe
  31. Stellar Evolution and Populations
  32. Radio Astronomy