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