Lectures:
1. Monday,
August 21 (Solar Eclipse – NO CLASS)
2. Wednesday, August 23 (Sky Patterns)
3. Friday, August 25 (Constellations
& Astronomy as a Science)
4. Monday, August 28 (Daytime Observing)
5. Wednesday, August 30 (Scaling &
Daily Motion) [Constellation Quiz!]
6. Friday, September 1 (Intro
Seasonal Motion)
7. Monday,
September 4 (LABOR DAY)
8. Wednesday, September 6 (Seasonal Motion)
9. Friday, September 8 (Lunar Motion)
10. Monday, September 11 (Moon Phases)
11. Wednesday, September 13
(Planetary Motion & Conclusion Part I)
12. Friday,
September 15 (Midterm Exam I)
13. Monday, September 18 (History of
Astronomy)
14. Wednesday, September 20 (Ptolemy)
15. Friday, September 22 (The
Copernican Revolution)
16. Monday, September 25 (Tycho & Kepler)
17. Wednesday, September 27 (Galileo &
Scientific Revolution)
18. Friday, September 29 (Newton)
19. Monday, October 2 (Physical
Astronomy) [Starry Monday 7pm]
17. Wednesday, October 4 (Scale of the
Cosmos)
18. Friday, October 6 (Modern
Astronomy)
19. Monday,
October 9 (FALL BREAK – NO CLASS)
17. Wednesday, October 11 (EM
Radiation & Telescopes)
18. Friday, October 13
(Thermodynamics & Astrophysics)
19. Monday, October 16 (Astrophysics)
20. Wednesday,
October 18 (Midterm Exam II)
21. Friday, October 20 (Intro to
Solar System)
22. Monday, October 23 (Earth,
Moon & Terrestrials)
23. Wednesday, October 25 (Mars
& Greenhouse Effect)
24. Friday, October 27 (Jovian
Planets & Solar System Formation)
25. Monday, October 30 (The Sun)
26. Wednesday, November 1 (Modern
Physics)
27. Friday, November 3 (Stars & Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams)
28. Monday, November 6 (Modeling
Stars) [Starry Monday 7pm]
29. Wednesday, November 8 (Stellar
Lifecycle)
30. Friday, November 10 (Death of Stars
& Nucleosynthesis)
31. Monday,
November 13 (Midterm Exam III)
32. Wednesday, November 15 (Variable
Stars)
33. Friday, November 17 (The Milky
Way)
34. Monday, November 20 (Galaxies
& Intro to Cosmology)
35. Wednesday,
November 22 (THANKSGIVING BREAK)
36. Friday,
November 24 (THANKSGIVING BREAK)
37. Monday, November 27 (The Expanding Universe)
38. Wednesday, November 29 (Cosmic
Distance Ladder)
39. Friday, December 1
(Failure of Standard Cosmology)
40. Monday, December 4 (Conclusion) [Starry Monday 7pm]
Activities:
·
Scaling
·
Parallax
·
EM Waves
·
Spectra and Blackbody Radiation
·
Formation of the Solar System
·
Hertzsprung-Russell
diagrams
·
Jupiter Moons (Manual) (Student
Manual with Questions)
·
Hubble Law (Manual) (Student
Manual with Questions)
AstroMath Companion (Excel file to use with Skylab
& Homework)
Constellation Quiz Data sheet
Exams
·
Midterm
1: Study Guide (Solutions), Version A, Version
B
·
Midterm
2: Study Guide (Solutions), Version A, Version
B
·
Midterm
3: Study Guide (Solutions), Version A, Version
B
·
Final:
Study Guide (Solutions)
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