Mon. Jan. 29 | Introduction and Survey | None |
Wed. Jan. 31 | The Scale of the Universe | Introduction |
Fri. Feb. 2 | Appearance of the Sky | 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 |
Mon. Feb. 5 | Motion of the Moon | 1-4 |
Wed. Feb. 7 | Early Ideas of the Universe | 2-1 |
Fri. Feb. 9 | The Heliocentric Universe | 2-2, 2-3 |
Mon. Feb. 12 | Galileo and Kepler | 2-4, 2-5 |
Wed. Feb. 14 | Newton's Laws of Motion | 2-6 |
Fri. Feb. 16 | Universal Gravitation | 2-6; HW#1 DUE |
Mon. Feb. 19 | Survey of the Planets | 5-1, 5-2 |
Wed. Feb. 21 | Formation of Planets | 5-3 |
Fri. Feb. 23 | The Earth | 6-1 |
Mon. Feb. 26 | The Moon | 6-2 |
Wed. Feb. 28 | Mercury and Venus | 7-1, 7-2 |
Fri. Mar. 2 | Mars | 7-3; HW#2 DUE |
Mon. Mar. 5 | Jupiter | 8-1 |
Wed. Mar. 7 | Saturn | 8-2 |
Fri. Mar. 9 | Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto | 8-3, 8-4, 8-5 |
Mon. Mar. 12 | EXAM 1 | Introduction, chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Wed. Mar. 14 | Meteorites and asteroids | 9-1, 9-2 |
Fri. Mar. 16 | Comets | 9-3; HW#3 DUE |
Mon. Mar. 19 | SPRING BREAK | |
Wed. Mar. 21 | SPRING BREAK | |
Fri. Mar. 23 | SPRING BREAK | |
Mon. Mar. 26 | The Electromagnetic Spectrum | 3-1 |
Wed. Mar. 28 | Optical Telescopes | 3-2, 3-3 |
Fri. Mar. 30 | Non-optical Telescopes | 3-4, 3-5 |
Mon. Apr. 2 | Atoms and Radiation | 4-1, 4-2 |
Wed. Apr. 4 | Spectra | 4-3 |
Fri. Apr. 6 | The Sun | 10-1; HW#4 DUE |
Mon. Apr. 9 | Solar Magnetic Activity | 10-2 |
Wed. Apr. 11 | Why the Sun Shines | 10-3 |
Fri. Apr. 13 | EXAM 2 | Chapters 3, 4, 9, 10 |
Mon. Apr. 16 | Stars: distances, brightnesses, masses | 11-1, 11-2, 11-3 |
Wed. Apr. 18 | Stars: spectra and diameters | 11-3, 11-4 |
Fri. Apr. 20 | Hertzprung-Russell diagram | 11-4, 11-6 |
Mon. Apr. 23 | Lives of Stars | 12-1, 12-2, 12-4 |
Wed. Apr. 25 | Deaths of Stars | 13-1, 13-2, 13-3 |
Fri. Apr. 27 | Black Holes and Neutron Stars | 14-1, 14-2; HW#5 DUE |
Mon. Apr. 30 | Our Milky Way Galaxy | 15-1, 15-3 |
Wed. May 2 | Origin of Our Galaxy | 15-2, 15-4 |
Fri. May 4 | Normal Galaxies | 16-1, 16-2, 16-3 |
Mon. May 7 | Active Galaxies | 17-1, 17-2 |
Wed. May 9 | Structure of the Universe | 18-1 |
Fri. May 11 | Origin and Fate of the Universe | 18-2; HW#6 DUE |
Mon. May 14 | Life in the Universe | 19-1, 19-2, 19-3 |
Sat. May 19 | FINAL EXAM | All of the above |