ASTR100 -- List of Lectures and Chapter References
| Date | Topic | Relevant Chapters |
Relevant Essays |
|---|---|---|---|
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Th Sep 01 |
Cosmic landscape; scale of the universe | Preview | |
| Tu Sep 06 |
Looking at the night sky | Overview 1 | 1 |
| Th Sep 08 |
Size and scale of the Earth, Sun, Moon | 1 | |
| Tu Sep 13 |
Kepler; Copernican revolution; Galileo | 1 | |
| Th Sep 15 |
Newton's laws of motion | 2 | |
| Tu Sep 20 |
Gravity | 2 | |
| Th Sep 22 |
A familiar planet: inside the
Earth |
5 | |
| Tu Sep 27 |
The Earth and its seasons |
5 |
|
| Th Sep 29 |
The Moon | 6 |
|
| Tu Oct 04 | Eclipses; overview of the Solar system | 6, 7 | |
| Th Oct 06 |
Terrestrial planets |
8 |
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| Tu Oct 11 |
MIDTERM
#1 |
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| Th Oct 13 |
Out to the giant planets | 8, 9 | |
| Tu Oct 18 |
Meteors, asteroids, and comets |
10 | |
| Th Oct 20 |
Impacts |
10 |
|
| Tu Oct 25 |
The Sun | 11 | |
| Th Oct 27 |
Light and the electromagnetic spectrum | 3.1-3.2 |
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| Tu Nov 01 |
Wien's law; atoms | 3.2-3.7 |
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| Th Nov 03 |
Properties of stars | 12 | |
| Tu Nov 08 |
Stellar evolution | 13 | |
| Th Nov 10 |
Stellar evolution and the Sun's end | 13, 14 | |
| Tu Nov 15 | MIDTERM #2 | |
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| Th Nov 17 | Spectacular stellar endings | 14 | |
| Tu Nov 22 |
The Milky Way galaxy | 15 | |
| Th Nov 24 | Thanksgiving | ||
| Tu Nov 29 | Galaxies | 16 |
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| Th Dec 01 |
Galaxies and cosmology | 17 | |
| Tu Dec 06 | Cosmology | 17 | |
| Th Dec 08 | Origin of the universe | 17 | |
| Tu Dec 13 |
Life in the universe | 3 | |
| Fr Dec 16 | FINAL EXAM, 8:00-10:00 AM | 1-17 |
1,3 |