PLEASE NOTE: 

Students should be fully familiar with the Cosmology Unit from Year 11. You are strongly advised to spend a few hours reviewing the Y11 unit before commencing this IB option. 

D1. Objects in the Universe

Introduction:    Watch the video Our Universe

Go to this website and make a note on your understanding of the following terms:

• The Solar System (and its contents)

• A Galaxy

• Galactic Clusters

• Stars and Constellations

  • Single, Binary, Cepheid Variables, Red Giants, White Dwarves

D1.2 The Nature of Stars (See section D2 below)

D1.3 Units of Distance

D 1.4 Stellar Parallax and Distance To The Stars

D1.5 Stellar Radiation 

What is Black Body Radiation?

D2.1- D2.3 Stellar Characteristics

Stellar Spectra

D2.5 - D2.7 Stellar Process - Stars And Their Life Cycle