Astrophysics

Here is the first video for the Astrophysics module:

After last week, Kevin wanted to jump back a little bit and explain the physics of light. Here is the first of 3 videos on light, this one focuses on where to find every formula you’ll need for the leaving cert, scientific notation, and unit prefixes:

Here is the second video on light focused oon answering the question what is a wave?:

And the final video focuses on the physics of light:

Here is the week 3 video where Kevin discusses the brightness of a planet:

This week Kevin moves on to talking about the cosmic distance ladder which is related to the brightness and problem set that we spoke about last week. Here is the video:

In the last week of videos, first Kevin talks about stellar structure:

And then in that last video before the on-campus day he discusses telescopes and astral evolution: