Jason Kendall's Intro to Astronomy Course
Adjunct faculty in Physics at William Paterson University
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Module 6: The Sun: Measuring and Understanding the Closest Star
05: What Powers the Sun?
Video References
References for Module 6: The Sun: Measuring and Understanding the Closest Star
Supplement the videos with "OpenStax Astronomy"
15 The Sun: A Garden-Variety Star
16: The Sun, a Nuclear Powerhouse
05: What Powers the Sun?
Here we learn how the Sun shines, and how long it will shine, as well as some of the great questions of 19th century Physics. We'll also see what your smile looks like when you get a Nobel Prize.
Jim Hutton's Siccar Point
Gravitational Potential Energy
Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism
The discovery of radioactivity
Wilhelm Röntgen
Timeline of Nuclear Physics Discoveries
Einstein's Mass-Energy Equivalence
Sir Arthur Eddington
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Hermann von Helmholtz
Alpha Decay
Quantum Tunnelling
George Gamow
Gamow Peak
The Proton-Proton Chain
Tsar Bomba
Hans Bethe
Henri Becquerel