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Introduced "Objective Reality"  Thales  
First to picture an infinite universe  Anaximander  
Originated the 7-day week and the roots of the 24-hour day and 60 minute hour  Summerians  
Perpetuated the calendar choices of the Sumerians, developed algebra  Babylonians  
Used a 10-day week. Developed geometry  Egyptians  
Atomic Theory and the Vacuum  Democritus and Leucipus  
Separated science and philosophy  The Pythagoreans  
Suggested the Earth rotated on its axis, and possibly was not the center of the universe  The Pythagoreans  
One of the Athenian Philosophers  Socretes  
deepest thinker of the Athenian philosophers. founded the first "University" - Empirical Philosophy  Plato  
Founded the current scientific disciplines - founded his own university. big contributions in biology. Argued the Earth was a sphere. Argued against a heliocentric theory because of the lack of an observable stellar parallax. Also an Athenian Philosopher  Aristotle  
A contemporary of Plato and Aristotle. Early developments of Mechanics in physics  Eudoxus  
First serious proponent of the Heliocentric theory  Aristarchus  
The greatest observational astronomer in antiquity. Developed the Stellar Magnitude scale. Produced a star catalog. Measured the distances to the sun and moon. discovered the 26000 year precession of the Earth's axis of rotation. Argued against the helioc  Hipparchus  
Passed down to us much of what we know about the earlier contributions. Set down the principals of celestial navigation and Astrology  Ptolemy  
Re-introduced the Heliocentric theory. Described the Solar System with the correct Sidereal periods  Copernicus  
Compiled large volumes of observational data  Tycho  
Used Tycho's data to discern his 3 laws of planetary motion.  Kepler  
The father of modern science. Used telescope to discover the 4 brightest moons of Jupiter, the crescent phases of Venus, stars too dim to be seen with the naked eye  Galileo  
Discovered the Law of Inertia and introduced the scientific method  Galileo  
The father of modern physics  Newton  
Three laws of motion: *The law of inertia (An object in motion...) *F = ma *Conservation of Momentum - mv (Action - Reaction)  Newton  
The Law of Universal Gravitation - F = G m1m2/r^2  Newton  
General form of Kepler's 3rd law (M1 + M2)p^2 = a^3  Newton  
The reflecting telescope and the spectrum of light  Newton  
Electric charges (q/r^2) and changing magnetic fields (delta B / delta t)  Electric Field Sources  
Causes a force in the direction of the field on all charges  Electric Field Effects  
Moving charges (Right-Hand-Rule) and changing electric fields  Magnetic Field Sources  
Causes a force on moving charges (qvB) perpendicular to the field and the direction of motion of the charge (Right-Hand-Rule)  Magnetic Field Effects  
Light is composed of  Electromagnetic Waves  
Accelerating charges create  Electromagnetic Waves  
nucleus with negatively charged electrons orbiting around them  atoms  
positively charged protons and neutral neutrons  Nuclei  
number of protons  atomic number  
determines the chemical element properties  atomic number  
total number of neutrons and protons  atomic weight  
number of neutrons determins the  isotope  
when atoms gain or lose electrons  ions  
same number of electrons as protons  neutral atoms  
losing electrons  ionized  
when electrons drop from a higher level to a vacancy in a lower level they emit  photons  
quanta of light. they have momentum and energy given by their frequency times Planck's Constant. they also behave like waves  photons  
Spectra - when all wavelengths are present  continuous  
when hot solid objects or high pressure gasses radiate  Black Body Radiation  
Spectra - when light is present at all wavelengths EXCEPT at certain wavelengths  absorption  
when light passes through a diffuse gas and certain wavelengths are absorbed out of the light that continues on  absorption  
when light is present ONLY at certain wavelengths  emission  
when light passes through a diffuse gas and is absorbed, raising electrons to higher levels, when those electrons drop back down they emit light  emission  
due to fundamental quantum effects  natural width  
due to doppler shift from the motion of the emitting molecules at any temperature above absolute zero  thermal broadening  
due to frequent collisions of the emitting atoms in a high pressure gas  collisional broadening  
due to the splitting of levels in strong magnetic fields  zeeman effect  
due to emission from a rapidly rotating star where the doppler shifts mix from emissions on different sides of the star  rotational broadening  
the positioins of the lines are a characteristic function of the individual emitting elements. this allow identification of the relative composition of the source  spectral line positions  
these characteristic positions are shifted by the doppler effect when the entire source is moving with respect to the observers on the earth  spectral line positions  
a difference of 5 magnitudes means a factor of <blank> in brightness  100, (2.5)^difference in magnitude  
the smaller the algebraic value of the magnitude the <blank> the source  brighter  
<blank> magnitudes are the magnitude a star would have if it were at a distance of 10 parasecs  absolute  
<blank> magnitude is the magnitude that an object appears to have  apparent  
if you know both the apparent and absolute magnitudes, you can calculate the <blank>  distance  
the relative brightness of stars is a function of  temperature, surface area and distance  
the surface brightness varies as T^4  temperature  
the total luminosity is proportional to R^2  surface area  
apparent brightness is proportional to 1/d^2  distance  
the spectral type classification scheme is a surface <blank> classification for stars  temperature  
O B A F G K M  Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me <==hot -- cold==>  
within each letter class there are sub-classes numbered 0-9 from  hotter to cooler  
from kepler's and newton's laws, the masses of each star in a binary system can be determined  (M1+M2)p^2 = (r1+r2)^3 and M1/M2 = r2/r1 need to determine p, r1 and r2 to find M1 and M2  
not a true binary but an optical double  optical  
a true binary where both stars are clearly seen  visual  
only one star is seen, but moves in an oscillatory way  astrometric  
when viewed edge on-the spectral lines are alternately doppler shifted as the stars orbit one another  spectroscopic  
the light shows two incompatible spectra  spectrum  
the intensity of the light dims as the stars eclipse. these are usually also spectroscopic binaries as well  eclipsing  
the bayer catalog divided the sky into <blank> constellations and named the stars with respect to the constellation they are in  88  
named by constellation but with latin letters starting with R-Z, RR-ZZ, AA-QQ  variable stars