You should understand the words and concepts listed here:
- interstellar evolution
- stage 8 - subgiant branch
- stage 9 - red giant branch
- stage 10 - helium fusion
- stage 11 - giant branch revisited
- hydrogen shell burning
- helium flash
- horizontal branch
- planetary nebula
- nova
- accretion disk
- late stage solar-mass stars
- stage 12 - planetary nebula
- stage 13 - white dwarf
- late stage heavy-mass stars
- stage 12 - heavy element fusion
- stage 13 - supernova
- supernova
- Type I - carbon detonation
- Type II - core collapse
This list covers the vocabulary added in chapter 12. It should be reviewd
together with the corresponding vocabulary lists for chapters 10, 11
and 13.
The URL for this page is
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/physics/m.vaughn/PHYU111_F07/vocabulary_12.html
posted 12 November 2007