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section/pages

Recommended
Chapter
Questions*

Recommended
Interactive figs.
& Tutorials

1/18 & 1/20

Overview: our
place in space,
time, & motion

ch. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
pp. 2-21 (6e)

6, 7, 22, 23, 25, 28, 32

Fig. 1.16

1/20 & 25

Orientation to the
sky; seasons

ch. 2.1, 2.2
pp. 27-41

4, 6, 8, 24, 28,
30, 32

Fig. 2.14, 2.16,
seasons tutorial

1/25 & 27

Lunar phases;
eclipses; planets

ch. 2.3, 2.4
pp. 41-51

12, 14, 15, 26,
34

Fig. 2.22, lunar
phases tutorial

1/27 & 2/1

Geocentric vs.
heliocentric model;
Kepler's Laws

ch. 3.2, 3.3
pp. 62-74

8, 28, 29, 32,
33, 51, 56

Fig. 3.15, orbits
& Kepler's
laws tutorial

2/3 & 8

Motion & energy;
Newton's laws of
motion & gravity

ch. 4 (all)

3, 8, 15, 22, 30, 34, 44, 45, 55, 56

Figs. 4.18, 22, 25

2/15 & 17

Light, Atoms, & Spectra

ch. 5 (all)

6, 7, 9, 14, 18, 20, 27, 44, 45

Figs. 5.3, 5.5, 5.14, 5.15, 5.19, 5.23

2/17 & 22

Telescopes & Tools

ch. 6 (all)

3, 4, 9, 12, 26, 31, 32

Telescopes tutorial

2/24 & 3/1

Solar System Overview & Formation

ch. 7 (all) and
ch. 8.1-8.4

7: 6-11, 22
8: 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 27, 30

7: Fig. 7.1, 14
8: Formation of SS tutorial

3/1 & 3/3

Extrasolar Planets

ch. 13 (all)

3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 16

Detecting Planets tutorial

3/3

Asteroids, Comets, & the Kuiper Belt

ch. 12

1, 4, 6, 8, 11, 29, 30, 31

3/8 & 3/10

Our Star: The Sun

ch. 14

1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 12, 25, 26

Tutorial: The Sun

3/22 & 3/24

Surveying the Stars

ch. 15

3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 17

Tutorial: The HR Diagram

3/29

Star Birth, Brown Dwarfs

16.3

14, 15, 16, 17

Fig. 16.16

3/29 & 3/31

Star Lives & Deaths

ch. 17

3, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23

Figs. 17.3, 17.12, 17.13, "Lives of Stars" Movie, Stellar Evolution Tutorial

4/5 & 4/7

Stellar Corpses: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars,
and Black Holes

ch. 18

1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

Tutorial: Black Holes

4/12 & 4/14

The Milky Way: Our Galaxy

ch. 19

1, 4, 5, 10, 16, 18, 21, 29, 31, 36

Figs. 19.1, 19.12,
Movie: The Milky Way

4/14 & 4/19

Galaxies and Hubble's Law

ch. 20

2, 4, 7, 10, 13, 18, 20, 28, 33

Hubble's Law Tutorial

4/19 & 4/21

Cosmology: The Big Bang

ch. 23

2, 7, 10, 12, 16, 29, 30

Movie: From the Big Bang to Galaxies

4/21 & 4/26

Dark Matter and Energy

ch. 22

1, 2, 5, 6, 14, 33, 35

Figures 22.9, 22.11; Fate of the Universe Tutorial

4/26 & 5/3

Galaxy Evolution

ch. 21

5, 6, 11, 23, 29

interactive Figures 21.2, 21.7