Astrophysicist Rachel Webster – a Professor at Melbourne University – reviews:
•    key aspects of our current knowledge of the Universe
•    topics and concepts that excite students

Of interest to all physics teachers, the lecture covers:

•    Astronomy as a science
•    Our Solar System: the two-body problem
•    Stars
•    Blackbody radiation
•    Stellar evolution
•    Light from stars
•    The Milky Way
•    Dark Matter
•    Other Galaxies
•    A model for structure formation
•    Density, and what it tells us
•    Redshift
•    The Big Bang model

One of a series of lectures/demonstrations in the Advanced Physics Series for physics teachers produced in conjunction with the University of Melbourne.

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