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Week 1
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Tuesday, January 16:
Review of Handout 1. Chapter 1
-- Scale of the Universe. |
Thursday, January 18:
Chapter 2 -- Celestial sphere,
visibility of sky. |
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Week 2
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Tuesday, January 23:
Chapter 2 -- Apparent motion of
stars, Sun, and planets.
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Thursday, January 25:
HW1 issued.
Chapter 3 -- Seasons, phases of
Moon and planets, lunar and solar eclipses. |
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Week 3
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Tuesday, January 30:
Chapter 4-5 -- Copernicus to Newton.
Help Sessions for HW1:
Tuesday January 30 CPE2.208 5-6pm
Wednesday, January 31 ESB115 6-7pm
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Thursday, February 1:
HW1 due.
Chapter 6 -- Properties of light.
Optical telescopes refractors and reflectors. |
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Week 4
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Tuesday, February 6:
HW2 issued.
Chapter 6 -- Light gathering power,
resolving power radio and other telescopes. |
Thursday, February 8:
Chapter 7 -- Rutherford and Bohr's
model atom, light and matter, Doppler effect. |
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Week 5
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Tuesday, February 13:
HW2 due.
Chapter 7 -- Stellar spectra: black-body
radiation, absorption lines and all that. |
Thursday, February 15:
Chapter 7 -- Stellar spectra concluded. |
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Week 6
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Tuesday, February 20:
Chapter 8 -- The Sun.
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Thursday, February 22:
Quiz 1 |
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Week 7
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Tuesday, February 27:
HW3 issued.
Chapter 9 -- Trig. parallax, brightness,
and luminosity, the HR diagram.
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Thursday, March 1:
Chapter 10 -- Binary stars, mass-luminosity
relation. |
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Week 8
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Tuesday, March 6:
HW3 due.
Chapter 12 -- Structure of stars
-- gravitation and nuclear energy.
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Thursday, March 8:
Chapter 13 -- Lifetimes of stars,
star formation. |
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Week 9
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Tuesday, March 13:
SPRING
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Thursday, March 15:
BREAK
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Week 10
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Tuesday, March 20:
HW4 issued.
Chapter 14 -- Evolution and death
of massive stars.
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Thursday, March 22:
Chapter 14 -- Evolution and death
of low mass stars: planetary nebulae and dwarfs. |
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Week 11
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Tuesday, March 27:
HW4 due.
Chapter 15 -- Neutron stars and
black holes. |
Thursday, March 29:
Chapter 16 -- Our Galaxy: Structure
and origin. |
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Week 12
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Tuesday, April 3:
Chapter 11, 16 -- Spiral arms,
nucleus.
Chapter 17 -- Galaxy types. |
Thursday, April 5:
Quiz 2 |
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Week 13
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Tuesday, April 10:
HW5 issued.
Chapter 17 -- Distances to galaxies. |
Thursday, April 12:
Chapter 17 -- Galaxy groups and
clusters, Evolution of galaxies. |
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Week 14
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Tuesday, April 17:
HW5 due.
HW6 issued.
Chapter 18 -- Active and peculiar
galaxies. |
Thursday, April 19:
Chapter 19 -- Cosmology, Hubble
Law, Olber's paradox. |
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Week 15
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Tuesday, April 24:
HW6 due.
Chapter 19 -- The Big Bang
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Thursday, April 26:
How the Universe may end. |
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Week 16
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Tuesday, May 1:
Quiz 3
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Thursday, May 3:
Chapter 19 -- Cosmology concluded.
Review for final.
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