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AST 301
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Week of:

    Reading
 		   Topics
 		Friday Exams
Jan 17:
 		   Ch 1+2+A
 		   The Sky
 		  
Jan 24:
 		   Ch 3
 		   Cycles in the Sky
 		 
Jan 31:
 		   Ch 4
 		   The Origins of Modern Astronomy
 		 
Feb 7:
 		   Ch 5.1+6
 		   Telescopes, Atoms + Starlight
 		 
Feb 14:
 		   Ch 7
 		   The Sun
 		Exam #1, ch 1-6
Feb 21:
 		   Ch 8
 		   Observations of Stars
 		 
Feb 28:
 		   Ch 9
 		   The Formation and Structure of Stars
 		 
Mar 7:
 		   Ch 10
 		   The Lives and Deaths of Stars
 		 
Mar 21:
 		   Ch 11
 		   Neutron Stars and Black Holes
 		 
Mar 28:
 		   Ch 12
 		   The Milky Way Galaxy
 		Exam #2, ch 7-11
Apr 4:
 		   Ch 13+14
 		   Galaxies, Normal + Active
 		 
Apr 11:
 		   Ch 15
 		   Cosmology and the Big Bang
 		 
Apr 18:
 		   Ch 16
 		   The Origin of the Solar System
 		 
Apr 25:
 		   Ch 17
 		   The Earthlike Planets
 		 
May 2:
 		   Ch 18+19
 		   The Outer Solar System
 		 
May 14:
 		    
 		   Final Exam 9:00-12:00
 		 






 






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