| Tue. Aug. 27 | Introduction, The Scale of the Universe | OpenStax 1.4-1.7 |
| Thu. Aug. 29 | A Brief History of the Universe | OpenStax 1.9 |
| Tue. Sep. 3 | Seasons on Earth | OpenStax 4.2 |
| Thu. Sep. 5 | The Motions of the Moon and Planets | OpenStax 4.5, 4.7; Syllabus Cover Sheet due |
| Tue. Sep. 10 | Competing Cosmologies | OpenStax 2.2, 2.4 |
| Thu. Sep. 12 | Kepler's Laws & The Scientific Method | OpenStax 3.1, 3.3; HW#1 due |
| Tue. Sep. 17 | Newton's Laws of Motion | OpenStax 7.1 |
| Thu. Sep. 19 | Planetary Formation | OpenStax 7.4 |
| Tue. Sep. 24 | Terrestrial Planet Surfaces | OpenStax 10.2, 10.4 |
| Thu. Sep. 26 | Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres | OpenStax 10.3, 10.5; HW#2 due |
| Tue. Oct. 1 | The Giant Planets | OpenStax 11 |
| Thu. Oct. 3 | EXAM I | OpenStax Reading; HW 1-2 |
| Tue. Oct. 8 | Moons, Asteroids, and Comets | OpenStax 12.1, 12.3, 13 |
| Thu. Oct. 10 | Extrasolar Planets | OpenStax 21.4, 21.5 |
| Tue. Oct. 15 | Revisiting Planetary Formation | OpenStax 21.6 |
| Thu. Oct. 17 | Light and Atomic Physics | OpenStax 15.1, 15.2; HW#3 due |
| Tue. Oct. 22 | The Sun | OpenStax 17.1-17.3 |
| Thu. Oct. 24 | Other Stars | OpenStax 18.1, 18.2, 18.4 |
| Tue. Oct. 29 | A Small Star's Life | OpenStax 21.1, 21.2, 22.1 |
| Thu. Oct. 31 | A Big Star's Life | OpenStax 22.2, 23.2; HW#4 due |
| Tue. Nov. 5 | White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars | OpenStax 23.1, 23.4 |
| Thu. Nov. 7 | EXAM II | OpenStax Reading; HW 3-4 |
| Tue. Nov. 12 | Black Holes | OpenStax 24.5, 24.6 |
| Thu. Nov. 14 | Our Galaxy and Other Galaxies | OpenStax 25.1, 25.2, 26.2 |
| Tue. Nov. 19 | Galactic Distances | OpenStax 26.4, 26.5 |
| Thu. Nov. 21 | The Big Bang Theory | OpenStax 29.3, 29.4, 29.6; HW#5 due |
| Tue. Nov. 26 | Dark Matter and Dark Energy | OpenStax 28.4, 29.5 |
| Thu. Nov. 28 | THANKSGIVING!! | |
| Tue. Dec. 3 | Fate of Our Universe | OpenStax 28.5, 29.2 |
| Thu. Dec. 5 | Life, the Universe, and Everything | OpenStax 30; HW#6 due |
| Thu. Dec. 12 | FINAL EXAM (10:30am-12:30pm) | OpenStax Reading; HW 1-6 |
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