Mon Feb 11: Introduction, syllabus, the plan Chapter 0 - Principles of Clear Thinking and Scientific Method
Web Feb 13: Chapter 0 - Principles of Clear Thinking and Scientific Method
Wed Feb 20: Ch 1: Our place in the Universe, some basics,
Mon Feb 25: Ch 3: Renaissance astronomy through Kepler (stock contest extra credit due)
Wed Feb 27: Ch 3: Renaissance astronomy through Kepler
Mon Mar 3: Ch 4 - Newton: Forces and Gravity. Quiz #1: Chap 0, 1, 3
Wed Mar 5: Ch 4 - Newton: Forces and Gravity
Mon Mar 10: Ch 5 - Light and Matter
Wed Mar 12: Ch 5 - Light and Matter, Ch 6 - Telescopes and Detectors
Mon Mar 17: Ch S1,2 - Einstein and Modern Gravity Quiz #2: Chap 4, 5, 6, bits of S1,2
Wed Mar 19: Ch 14 - The Sun, Hydrogen Fusion
Mon Mar 31: Ch 14 - The Sun, Structure, Solar Wind
Wed Apr 2: Video "Secrets of the Sun" and video quiz
Mon Apr 7: Ch 15 - Surveying the Stars
Wed Apr 9: Ch 16 - The Birth of Stars, Quiz #3: Chap 14, 15
Mon Apr 14: Stellar Evolution: Low and Medium Mass Stars
Wed Apr 16: Stellar Evolution: High Mass Stars, Stellar Death
Mon Apr 21: Stellar Death - White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, Black Holes
Wed Apr 23: Video "The Death of a Star" and video quiz
Mon Apr 28: Ch 19- Our Milky Way Galaxy,
Wed Apr 30: Video "The Milky Way" and video quiz, Quiz #4: Chap 16-18
Mon May 5: Ch 20,21 - Galaxy types, Galaxy evolution, video clip on colliding galaxies
Wed May 7: Ch 20,21 - Quasars and Giant Black Holes
Mon May 12: Ch 22 - Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Large Scale Structure, Quiz #5: Ch 19-21
Wed May 14: Ch 23 - Cosmology: the Big Bang
Mon May 19: Ch 22/23 - Cosmology: The Big Bang
Wed May 21: Ch 23/24 - Alternate Universes, the Anthropic Principle, and Life
Wed May 28: video "Astrobiology" and video quiz
Wed Jun 4 8-10am Note Final Exam Time start is 8am, NOT 7am (that's just TOO early): Quiz #6: Ch 22-24 and Final Exam