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]

 

 

Colored Concept Questions

 

 

Activities:

 

·         Sun’s Shadow

·         Angular Distances

·         Scaling

·         Seasonal Motion

·         The Seasons

·         Moon Phases

·         Retrograde Motion

·         Parallax

·         Ptolemy vs Copernicus

·         Kepler’s Laws

·         EM Waves

·         Spectra and Blackbody Radiation

·         Greenhouse Effect

·         Formation of the Solar System

·         The Sun’s Properties

·         Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams

·         Stellar Models

·         Early Stellar Life

·         Late Stellar Life

·         Cosmic Yardsticks

·         The Milky Way

·         Hubble’s Law

·         The Expanding Universe

·         The Expanding Balooniverse

 

 

Skylab Manual

·         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)

·         Exam Solutions

 

 

 


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