University of California San Diego, Department of Physics
Fall 2007 Physics 5
Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 - The Story of Astronomy (PDF) posted 9/28/07

Lecture 2 - Grecian Scale of the Cosmos (PDF) posted 9/28/07

Lecture 3 - Astronomy in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (PDF) posted 9/28/07

Lecture 4 - The Copernican Revolution (PDF) posted 9/28/07

Lecture 5 - The Newtonian Triumph (PDF) posted 10/8/07

Lecture 6 - Conservation Laws and Planetary Orbits (PDF) posted 10/8/07

Lecture 7 - The Material Universe (PDF) updated 10/15/07

Lecture 8 - Lightning and Lodestone (PDF) updated 10/15/07

Lecture 9 - Telescopes and Light (PDF) updated 10/15/07

Lecture 10 - Heat Engines and Heat Radiation (PDF) updated 10/15/07

Lecture 11 - The Quantum Revolution (PDF) posted 10/19/07

Lecture 12 - Waves, Particles, and Uncertainty (PDF) posted 10/19/07

Lecture 13 - Special Relativity (PDF) posted 10/19/07

Lecture 14 - Power of the Sun (PDF) posted 10/29/07

Lecture 15 - White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, Black Holes (PDF) updated 11/02/07

Lecture 16 - The Message of Starlight (PDF) posted 11/02/07

Lecture 17 - Lives and Deaths of Stars (PDF) posted 11/02/07

Lecture 18 - The Material Between the Stars (PDF) posted 11/02/07

Lecture 19 - The Milky Way Galaxy (PDF) posted 11/02/07

Lecture 20 - The Galaxies (PDF) posted 11/09/07

Lecture 20 Appendix - Active Galactic Nucei (PDF) posted 11/09/07

Lecture 21 - The Expanding Universe (PDF) posted 11/09/07

Lecture 22 - Relativistic Cosmology (PDF) posted 11/19/07

Lecture 23 - Creation of the Universe (PDF) posted 11/19/07

Lecture 24 - Inflationary Cosmology (PDF) posted 11/26/07

Lecture 25 - Back to the Solar System (PDF) posted 11/26/07

Lecture 26 - Origin of the Solar System (PDF) posted 11/26/07

Lecture 27 - Nature of Life on Earth (PDF) posted 11/26/07

Lecture 28 - Origin of Life on Earth (PDF) posted 11/26/07

Lecture 29 - Intelligent Life in the Universe (PDF) posted 11/26/07