AST 301 Introduction to Astronomy

DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY
COURSE WEB PAGES

ASTRONOMY 301
Introduction to Astronomy
Spring 2002 Unique No. 45515 | TTH 11:00-:12:30 | WEL 3.502

PROFESSOR Prof. Paul Shapiro Office: RLM 16.204 Phone: 471-9422 (office) or leave word at 471-3000 Office Hours: Immediately following class (WEL 3.502) or by appointment shapiro301@astro.as.utexas.edu Homepage
TEACHING ASSISTANT Mr. Kyungjin Ahn (Review Sessions & individual help) Office: RLM 16.208 Phone: 471-2785 or leave word at 471-3000 email: kjahn@astro.as.utexas.edu Office Hours: M 2-3 p.m.; Th 2-3 p.m.	TEACHING ASSISTANT Mr. Praveen Pasupathy (Homework Grading) Office: RLM 13.132 Phone: 474-7868 email: praveenk@ece.utexas.edu Office Hours: M and W 3-4 p.m.

CLASS WEB PAGE

HELP SESSIONS
M 7–8 p.m., CPE 2.214
W 7–8 p.m., CPE 2.214

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK
Bennett, J., Donahue, M., Schneider, N., Voit, M. The Cosmic Perspective (2002 Edition), (Addison-Wesley) ISBN: 0-8053-8044-2.

Exams
There will be four exams during the semester and no final exam.
Tentative Exam Dates: Feb. 12, Mar. 7, Apr. 9, May 2. The exams will be objective multiple choice.

Homework
There will be required reading assignments. Problems will be assigned regularly and must be handed in. They should be handed in at the beginning of class on the due date. Since solutions will be posted at the end of class on the due date, no late homework can be accepted.

Grading
The course grade will be based on the average of the scores on the four exams and the graded homework sets. All of the homework grades averaged together will be equal in weight to one of the exams. We will drop your lowest two homework grades before we take the final average homework grade. We will drop your lowest exam score (but not your average homework grade) before computing your final course grade.

21 January 2002
UT Astronomy Program • The University of Texas at Austin • Austin, Texas 78712
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