Astronomy

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	544-0089/02
Abbreviation	A
Course title	Astronomy
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Geodesy and Mine Surveying
Course coordinator	Mgr. Kamila Truparová Plšková

Subject syllabus

1. History of astronomy, constellations, names of stars, data sources
2. Spherical astronomy I
3. Spherical astronomy II
4. Celestial mechnics I
5. Celestial mechnics II
6. Solar system
7. Astrophysics - spectral classification
8. Binary and multiple stars, Galaxy, basic of cosmology
9. Some problems from spherical astronomy
10. Some problemas from celestial mechanics I
11. Some problemas from celestial mechanics II
12. Astronomical time systems
13. Precession and nutation
14. Parallax
15. Some problems of today´s astrophysics

Literature

Sir Norman Lockyer,Science primers Science primers, ed. by Professors Huxley, Roscoe, and Balfour Stewart, D. Appleton, 1885, Michigan

Advised literature

Michael Zeilik: Astronomy: The Evolving Universe, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0521800900, 9780521800907,pgs: 552
Marc Leslie Kutner, Astronomy: A Physical Perspective,Cambridge University Press, 2003, , 9780521529273,
pgs: 582

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