ASTR209 - Lecture 8

ASTRONOMY 209 PODCAST by Rene Plume

Feb 1, 201801:11:14Education

In this lecture we explore the many uses of Newton's version of Kepler's law as a tool to determine the masses of objects in the Universe. We then move on to Part 2 of the class notes (the Electromagnetic spectrum) and t...

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