Mon Feb 9: Introduction, syllabus, the plan, Chapter
0 - Principles of Clear Thinking and Scientific Method
Web Feb 11: Chapter 0
- Principles of Clear Thinking and Scientific Method
Wed Feb 18: Finish Chapter 0, Ch 1: Our place in the Universe,
some basics
Mon Feb 23: Ch 3,4: Early Astronomy, Gravity Quiz
#1: Chap 0, 1, 3
Wed Feb 25: Ch 4 - Newton: Forces and Gravity
Mon Mar 1: Ch 5 - Light and Matter
Wed Mar 3: Ch 5 - Light and Matter, Ch 6 - Telescopes and Detectors
Mon Mar 8: Ch S1,2 - Einstein and Modern Gravity Quiz
#2: Chap 4, 5, 6, bits of S1,2
Wed Mar 10: Ch 14 - The Sun, Hydrogen Fusion
Mon Mar 15: Ch 14 - The Sun, Structure, Solar Wind
Wed Mar 17: Video "Secrets of the Sun"
and video quiz
Mon Mar 22: Ch 15 - Surveying the Stars
Wed Mar 24: Ch 16 - The Birth of Stars, Quiz #3:
Chap 14, 15
Mon Mar 29: Stellar Evolution - Low and Medium Mass Stars
Wed Mar 31: Stellar Evolution - High Mass Stars, Stellar Death
Mon Apr 5: Stellar Death - White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, Black
Holes
Wed Apr 7: Video "The Life and Death of Stars"
and video quiz
Mon Apr 19: Ch 19- Our Milky Way Galaxy, Quiz #4:
Chap 16-18
Wed Apr 21: Video "The Milky Way Galaxy"
and video quiz
Mon Apr 26: Ch 20,21 - Galaxy types, Galaxy evolution, video
clip on colliding galaxies
Wed Apr 28: Ch 20,21 - Quasars and Giant Black Holes
Mon May 4: Ch 22 - Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Large Scale Structure,
Quiz #5: Ch 19-21
Wed May 6: Video “Nova – The Runaway Universe”
and video quiz
Mon May 11: Ch 23 - Cosmology: Evidence for the Big Bang
Wed May 13: Ch 22, 23 - Cosmology: The Big Bang and Inflation
Mon May 18: Ch 23, 24 - Alternate Universes, the Anthropic
Principle, and Life
Wed May 20: Life and the Search for ET, Drakes Equation
Wed May 27: video "Astrobiology" and
video quiz
Mon Jun 1 8-10am: Note Final Exam Time: Quiz #6:
Ch 22-24 and Final Exam