Electric Field Figure caption |
Light is an EM-wave Figure caption |
Names of frequency intervals Figure caption |
Solar spectrum Figure caption |
Three black body spectra Other examples of Black body spectra (Credit: wikipedia) Figure caption |
The Sun is almost a black body Figure caption |
Electrons can only be Figure caption |
Bohr's model Figure caption |
Bohr's model applet Figure caption |
Examples of emission lines spectra Figure caption |
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Schematic spectra of stars Figure caption |
Example of a typical stellar spectrum Figure caption More examples of stellar spectra of various types (Credit: D. Silva) |
See examples of galaxy spectra from the Sloan digital sky survey (get spectra by clicking on Object ID in the exercise 7) |
Stationary and moving Figure caption |
The siren on a firefighters truck Figure caption |
Redshift Figure caption |
A Galactic Spectrum Figure caption |
The Gaussian function Figure caption |
Stellar Velocity Distributions Figure caption |
background photo: Comet McNaught above Santiago,
copyright Stéphane Guisard, http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard
other pictures of the McNaught comet at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2007/phot-05-07.html