| Wed. Sep. 1 | Syllabus, Educational Survey | Preface, Introduction |
| Fri. Sep. 3 | Introduction, The Scale of the Universe | Introduction, Overview 1 |
| Mon. Sep. 6 | LABOR DAY HOLIDAY! | |
| Wed. Sep. 8 | Apparent Motions of the Sun and Stars | Chapter 1, Essay 1 |
| Fri. Sep. 10 | Motion of the Moon | Chapter 1 |
| Mon. Sep. 13 | Early Ideas of the Heavens | Chapter 1 |
| Wed. Sep. 15 | The Heliocentric Universe | Chapter 1 |
| Fri. Sep. 17 | Planetary Motion: Kepler's Laws | Chapter 1 |
| Mon. Sep. 20 | Newton's Laws of Motion | Chapter 1 |
| Wed. Sep. 22 | Universal Gravitation | Overview 2, Chapter 2 |
| Fri. Sep. 24 | Interior of Earth | Overview 3, Chapter 4 |
| Mon. Sep. 27 | Atmosphere of Earth | Chapter 4 |
| Wed. Sep. 29 | The Moon | Chapter 6 |
| Fri. Oct. 1 | Components of the Solar System | Chapter 7 |
| Mon. Oct. 4 | Origin of the Solar System | Chapter 7 |
| Wed. Oct. 6 | Terrestrial Planets | Chapter 8 |
| Fri. Oct. 8 | Terrestrial Planets | Chapter 8 |
| Mon. Oct. 11 | Terrestrial Planets & Jupiter | Chapters 8,9 |
| Wed. Oct. 13 | Jupiter & Saturn | Chapter 9 |
| Fri. Oct. 15 | Uranus, Neptune, & Pluto | Chapter 9 |
| Mon. Oct. 18 | EXAM I | Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6-8, Essay 1, Overviews 1-3 |
| Wed. Oct. 20 | Asteroids: Vermin of the Sky | Chapter 10 |
| Fri. Oct. 22 | Comets: Messengers from Beyond Pluto | Chapter 10 |
| Mon. Oct. 25 | The Electromagnetic Spectrum | Chapter 3 |
| Wed. Oct. 27 | Black Body Radiation | Chapter 3 |
| Fri. Oct. 29 | Formation of Spectra | Chapter 3 |
| Mon. Nov. 1 | The Doppler Effect | Chapter 3 |
| Wed. Nov. 3 | Telescopes, Instruments, and Time | Chapter 5, Essay 2 |
| Fri. Nov. 5 | Properties of the Sun, Our Star | Overview 5, Chapter 11 |
| Mon. Nov. 8 | How the Sun Works | Chapter 11 |
| Wed. Nov. 10 | The Magnetic Sun | Chapter 11 |
| Fri. Nov. 12 | EXAM II | Chapters 3, 5, 9-11, Essay 2, Overviews 4,5 |
| Mon. Nov. 15 | Properties of Stars | Chapter 12 |
| Wed. Nov. 17 | What Starlight Tells Us | Chapter 12 |
| Fri. Nov. 19 | The Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) Diagram | Chapter 12 |
| Mon. Nov. 22 | A Star's Life: Early & Late Stages | Chapter 13 |
| Wed. Nov. 24 | End States of a Star's Life | Chapter 14 |
| Fri. Nov. 26 | THANKSGIVING VACATION! | |
| Mon. Nov. 29 | Our Milky Way Galaxy | Overview 6, Chapter 15 |
| Wed. Dec. 1 | Our Milky Way Galaxy | Chapter 15 |
| Fri. Dec. 3 | Properties of Normal Galaxies | Chapter 16 |
| Mon. Dec. 6 | Active Galaxies | Chapter 16 |
| Wed. Dec. 8 | Structure of our Universe | Chapters 16,17 |
| Fri. Dec. 10 | Fate of Our Universe | Chapter 17 |
| Mon. Dec. 13 | Birth of Our Universe | Chapter 17 |
| Fri. Dec. 17 | FINAL EXAM (1:30pm-3:30pm) | Introduction, Chapters 1-17, Essays 1-2, Overviews 1-6 |
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