Wed. Aug. 29 | Introduction and Survey | None |
Fri. Aug. 31 | The Scale of the Universe | Introduction; HW#1 DUE |
Mon. Sep. 3 | LABOR DAY | |
Wed. Sep. 5 | Appearance of the Sky | 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 |
Fri. Sep. 7 | Motion of the Moon | 1-4 |
Mon. Sep. 10 | Early Ideas of the Universe | 2-1 |
Wed. Sep. 12 | The Heliocentric Universe | 2-2, 2-3 |
Fri. Sep. 14 | Galileo and Kepler | 2-4, 2-5 |
Mon. Sep. 17 | Newton's Laws of Motion | 2-6 |
Wed. Sep. 19 | Universal Gravitation | 2-6; |
Fri. Sep. 21 | Survey of the Planets | 5-1, 5-2; HW#2 DUE |
Mon. Sep. 24 | Formation of Planets | 5-3 |
Wed. Sep. 26 | The Earth | 6-1 |
Fri. Sep. 28 | The Moon | 6-2 |
Mon. Oct. 1 | Mercury and Venus | 7-1, 7-2 |
Wed. Oct. 3 | Mars | 7-3 |
Fri. Oct. 5 | Jupiter | 8-1; HW#3 DUE |
Mon. Oct. 8 | Saturn | 8-2 |
Wed. Oct. 10 | Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto | 8-3, 8-4, 8-5 |
Fri. Oct. 12 | EXAM 1 | Introduction, chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Mon. Oct. 15 | Meteorites and asteroids | 9-1, 9-2 |
Wed. Oct. 17 | Comets | 9-3 |
Fri. Oct. 19 | The Electromagnetic Spectrum | 3-1; HW#4 DUE; Open House 8 pt XC deadline |
Mon. Oct. 22 | Optical Telescopes | 3-2, 3-3 |
Wed. Oct. 24 | Non-optical Telescopes | 3-4, 3-5 |
Fri. Oct. 26 | Atoms and Radiation | 4-1, 4-2 |
Mon. Oct. 29 | Spectra | 4-3 |
Wed. Oct. 31 | The Sun | 10-1; |
Fri. Nov. 2 | Solar Magnetic Activity | 10-2; HW#5 DUE |
Mon. Nov. 5 | Why the Sun Shines | 10-3 |
Wed. Nov. 7 | EXAM 2 | Chapters 3, 4, 9, 10 |
Fri. Nov. 9 | Stars: distances, brightnesses, masses | 11-1, 11-2, 11-5; Open House 4 pt XC deadline |
Mon. Nov. 12 | Stars: spectra and diameters | 11-3, 11-4 |
Wed. Nov. 14 | Hertzprung-Russell diagram | 11-4, 11-6 |
Fri. Nov. 16 | Lives of Stars | 12-1, 12-2, 12-4; HW#6 DUE |
Mon. Nov. 19 | Deaths of Stars | 13-1, 13-2, 13-3 |
Wed. Nov. 21 | Black Holes and Neutron Stars | 14-1, 14-2 |
Fri. Nov. 23 | THANKSGIVING | |
Mon. Nov. 26 | Life in the Universe | 19-1, 19-2, 19-3 |
Wed. Nov. 28 | Our Milky Way Galaxy | 15-1, 15-2, 15-3, 15-4 |
Fri. Nov. 30 | Normal Galaxies | 16-1, 16-2, 16-3 |
Mon. Dec. 3 | Active Galaxies | 17-1, 17-2 |
Wed. Dec. 5 | Structure of the Universe | 18-1 |
Fri. Dec. 7 | Origin and Fate of the Universe | 18-2; HW#7 DUE; All Open House reports due |
Mon. Dec. 10 | Summary of most important points | |
Fri. Dec 14 | FINAL EXAM | All of the above |