ASTR 7020 - Astronomy for Teachers II

4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ASTR 7010 with grade of C or higher.
Description
Designed to extend a teacher’s understanding of our observations of the sun and stars with the derivation of their fundamental properties, including the conditions and fusion reactions below their surfaces. Matter between stars and stellar birth; old-age; and death, including neutron stars and black holes. Our Milky Way and other galaxies; quasars and peculiar galaxies; evidence for and interpretation of an expanding universe. Information on teaching resources will be available.