| Code: | F 810 |
| Department: | Department of Experimental Physics |
| Course director: | Károly Szatmáry |
| Credits: | 2 |
| Semester: | 8th |
| Hours/week: | 2+0 |
| Prerequisities: | Mechanics, Waves and Optics |
| Type of assessment: | K |
Course description:
Main steps in the history of astronomy.
The connection of astronomy and other fields of science. Space research.
The origin and detection of radiation. Astronomical telescopes, devices,
detectors. Photometry and spectroscopy. CCD image processing. Observatories.
Space telescopes. Constellations. Spherical astronomy. Celestial co-ordinate
systems. Astronomical dates, sideral time, solar mean time, universal time.
Refraction, aberration, parallaxis, precession, nutation. The evidences
of the rotation and revolution of the earth. Temporal changes in orbital
elements, and ice ages. Celestial mechanics. The orbits of satellites.
Perturbation calculation.three and n body problems. Lagrange points. The
origin of the solar system and its main characteristics. Planets, moons,
minor planets, meteors, comets, interplanetary matter. Kuiper belt, Oort
cloud. Nemesis theory. Search for extrasolar planetary systems. The structure
of the Sun, its energy production. Fusion reactions. Solar activity and
its impact on earth. Properties of stars, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
Stellar evolution. Nucleosynthesis, origin of the elements. Double stars,
variable stars. Theory of pulsation. Interstellar medium. Gas-, dust- and
molecule clouds. Star clusters. The structure of the milky way. Galaxies,
galaxy clusters. Redshift of spectral lines, quasars. Hubble's law, determination
of distance. Models of the universe, cosmology. Astronomical tests of general
relativity. Gravitational waves, gravitational lenses. Neutrinos.
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