Wednesday, January 21, 2009

christening post

so begins my journey into astronomical (and everything else) blogging--with jeff buckley as my musical companion. 

i'll admit my motivation for creating this blog is selfish in nature; in my galaxies and cosmology class we have been instructed to post a blog each time we approach a new "model" during the lecture and readings. we spent a week in class reviewing the more mathematical aspects of the intro course (kepler's laws, newton's form of kepler's third law, electromagnetic radiation and its relation to spectra and temperature, wien's law, the stefan-boltzmann law, and the doppler shift). we start this week on the chapter about the sun. 

get ready for sun models!

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