AST 3018 READING LIST

Page Topics covered (Chapter-Section)

A-32 celestial sphere, coordinate systems (Appendix 10)

54 Moon's apparent motion, regression of nodes, lunar phases, eclipses

2 Copernicus system, inferior and superior planets, synodic and sidereal period, retrograde motion (1-0, 1-1)

7 Kepler's Laws of planetary motion (1-2)

10 Newton's laws of motion and dynamics (1-3)

12 Law of Universal Gravitation; weight (1-4)

P-2 Gravitational two-body problem (P1-2 through P1-9)

14 Newton's version of Kepler's Laws (1-5)

31 Earth satellite orbits (2-3C)

---- Interplanetary orbits (supplement)

---- Rotating reference frame (supplement; see also P1-4 on p. P-4)

---- Restricted three-body problem (supplement)

---- N-body problem (supplement)

35 Rotating Earth: time and seasons (3-1), Coriolis force (3-2); proof of Earth's revolution and rotation (3-3)

44 Tidal forces, Roche limit, tidal friction, precession (3-4)

152 Electromagnetic radiation: wave vs. particle, spectrum (8-1); omit reflection etc.)

176 transfer equation, Kirchhoff's Rules

158 Atomic structure and energy-level diagrams, excitation and ionization (8-2)

166 Saha and Boltzmann equations (8-4)

164 Atomic and molecular spectra (8-3)

169 Line broadening (8-5)

44 Classical Doppler effect (3-3C)

168 Continuous-spectrum radiation, blackbody radiation laws (8-6)

---- Special relativity (supplement; see also P3 on p. P-14)

72; 104 Synchrotron radiation (4-6C, 6-1C; see also P6-5 on p. P-30)

20 Solar system -- general; terrestrial vs. jovian planets, thermal escape (2-1)

56 Hydrostatic equilibrium and Earth's interior (4-3)

59 Radioactive decay, surface features and plate tectonics (4-4A, supplement)

72 Magnetosphere and Van Allen belts (4-6B)

56 Earth and Moon as planets (4-3 through 4-7)

79 Mercury, Venus, Mars (5)

100 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (6)

118 Satellites and ring systems, asteroids, comets, meteorites (7-1 through 7-4)

142 Interplanetary gas and dust, Poynting-Robertson drag (7-5)

143 Origin and evolution of the solar system, planet formation (7-6)