Intro to Astro Equations

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What is the equation for monochromatic flux?

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What is the equation for monochromatic luminosity?

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What is the equation for bolometric flux?

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What is the equation for bolometric luminosity?

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What is the inverse square law equation linking flux and luminosity?

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What is the equation for flux of particles received at a detector?

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What is the equation for apparent magnitude?

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What is the equation for distance modulus?

Distance modulus = apparent magnitude (m) - absolute magnitude (M) 

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What is the equation for parallax using the small angle approximation?

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How do you convert from arcseconds to radians?

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What is the equation for parallax in arcseconds using distance in parsecs?

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What is the equation for tangential velocity?

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What is the equation for space velocity?

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What is the equation for doppler shift for v<0.1c?

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What is the equation for doppler shift for v>0.1c

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What is the equation for magnitude for stars in the immediate vicinity?

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What is the equation for magnitude including the extinction coefficient?

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What is the equation for colour temperature?

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What is the equation linking bolometric luminosity, bolometric flux, and effective temperature?

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What are the two equations for bolometric flux involving angular radius and angular diameter?

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What is the peak of the probability distribution, defining the most probable speed?

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What is the equation for mean speed of a particle?

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What is the equation for mean energy involving temperature?

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What is the equation for the quantised angular momentum of electrons?

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What is the equation for total orbital energy?

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What is meant by the term h bar?

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What is the equation for Bohr energy?

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What is the Boltzmann equation?

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What is the equation for Kepler’s first law?

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What is the equation for Kepler’s third law?

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What is the equation for the orbital velocity at perihelion?

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What is the equation for the orbital velocity at aphelion?

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What is the equation for binaries with Kepler’s 3rd Law?

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What is the equation for escape velocity?

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What is the equation for area for a solid angle?

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<p>What is the equation for a<sup>3</sup> in this diagram?</p>

What is the equation for a3 in this diagram?

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What is the equation for Ma+Mb?

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What is the equation for the angular offset from CoM?


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What is the equation for m1+m2 for eclipsing binaries?

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What is the equation for r1 for an eclipsing binary?

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What is the equation for r2 for an eclipsing binary?

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What is the equation relating luminosity, flux, and effective temperature for eclipsing binaries?

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<p>What is the equation for the force due to the mass of a galaxy acting on an object inside the galaxy?</p>

What is the equation for the force due to the mass of a galaxy acting on an object inside the galaxy?

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<p>What is the equation for the force due to the mass of a galaxy acting on an object outside the galaxy?</p>

What is the equation for the force due to the mass of a galaxy acting on an object outside the galaxy?

r=0

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What is the equation for v(r) in terms of M(r)?

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What is the equation for average M/L ratio for stars?

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What is the standard order of magnitude of the mass in solar masses for a giant galaxy?

1012

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What is the standard order of magnitude of the mass in solar masses for an intermediate galaxy?

1010

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What is the standard order of magnitude of the mass in solar masses for a dwarf galaxy?

108

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What is the virial theorem?

PE+2KE=0

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What are the 2 equations for total mass, Mc, for N galaxies mass m?

Mc = Nm

<p>Mc = Nm</p>
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How do you convert from mas to radians?

Divide by 1000 for the milli then by 3600 to get into degrees then times pi divided by 180