Th. Jan. 27 | Introduction and Scale of the Universe | Chapter 1 |
Tu. Feb. 1 | The Scientific Method | Chapter 1; HW#1 DUE (sign syllabus) |
Th. Feb. 3 | Appearance of the Sky | Chapter 2 |
Tu. Feb. 8 | Competing Cosmologies | Chapter 3; HW#2 DUE |
Th. Feb. 10 | Kepler's Laws | Chapter 3 |
Tu. Feb. 15 | The Laws of Motion | Chapter 4 |
Th. Feb. 17 | Conservation Laws and Gravity | Chapter 4 |
Tu. Feb. 22 | The Solar System and its Origin | Chapter 6; HW#3 DUE |
Th. Feb. 24 | The Terrestrial Planets: Earth and Moon | Chapter 7 |
Tu. Mar. 1 | The Terrestrial Planets: Mercury, Venus, and Mars | Chapter 7 |
Th. Mar. 3 | The Jovian Planets | Chapter 8 |
Tu. Mar. 8 | Moons, Asteroids, & Comets | Chapter 9; HW#4 DUE |
Th. Mar. 10 | EXAM I | Chapters 1-4, 6-9 |
Tu. Mar. 15 | Light: Electromagnetic Radiation | Chapter 5 |
Th. Mar. 17 | The Sun as a Star | Chapter 10 |
Mar. 21-25 | SPRING BREAK | Road map |
Tu. Mar. 29 | Observed Properties of Stars | Chapter 11 |
Th. Mar. 31 | Physical Properties of Stars | Chapter 12 |
Tu. Apr. 5 | Nuclear Fire | Chapter 12; HW#5 DUE |
Th. Apr. 7 | Stellar Evolution | Chapter 12 |
Tu. Apr. 12 | End States: White Dwarfs & Black Holes | Chapter 13 |
Th. Apr. 14 | EXAM II | Chapters 5, 10-13 |
Tu. Apr. 19 | The Milky Way | Chapter 14 |
Th. Apr. 21 | External Galaxies | Chapter 15 |
Tu. Apr. 26 | AGN, QSOs, and Supermassive Black Holes | Chapter 15; HW#6 DUE |
Th. Apr. 28 | Large Scale Structure and Dark Matter | Chapter 16 |
Tu. May 3 | Formation of Structure in the Universe | Chapter 16 |
Th. May 5 | Cosmology - the fun stuff | Chapter 17 |
Tu. May 10 | Cosmology - the goofy stuff | Chapter 17; HW#7 DUE |
Th. May 12 | Life, the Universe, and Everything | Chapter 18 |
Tu. May 17 | FINAL EXAM (8am-10am) | All of the above |