Jason Kendall's Video Lecture Series

This series covers an entire introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics course. It can be used in its entirety or in parts. There are some videos which are much heavier on the mathematics than is appropriate for a true introductory course. However, the series serves as a springboard into Sophomore level classes in Astrophysics. The readings from the OpenStax Astronomy online textbook provide additional resources relevant to the topics in the videos. All the videos are externally hosted on YouTube, and when you click on one, you'll be directed to a short playlist of the entire module.

Jason Kendall is the Astronomy Laison Coordinator for William Paterson University. He does public talks and media appearances on Astronomy and Science.
https://www.wpunj.edu/cosh/departments/physics/faculty/Kendall.html

Module 1: Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy


Module 2: Atoms and Light: The Interaction and Nature of Light and Matter


Module 3: The Sun


Module 4: Measuring the Stars


Module 5: Star Birth and Origins


Module 6: Star Death


Module 7: Stellar Corpses: White Dwarfs, Novae and Neutron Stars


Module 8: Stellar Corpses: Black Holes and Gravitational Waves


Module 9: The Milky Way


Module 10: Galaxies in the Cosmos


Module 11: Cosmology and the Big Bang


Module 12: Fundamentals of the Sky


Module 13: The Birth and Rise of Science


Module 14: Special and General Relativity


Solar System and Exoplanets