Topic Outline
| Sept 6 | Powers of 10, Matter and Energy | Introduction |
| 8 | Nature of Light and the Four Forces | Intro and Overview 2 |
| 11 | Overview of Univere | Introduction |
| 13 | Aspects of Sky: Celestial sphere and constellations | Chap 1 |
| 15 | Daily and annual motion, seasons, and zodiac | Chap 1 |
| 18 | Moon phases and eclipses | Chap 1 |
| 20 | Why eclipses don't happen each month | Chap 1 and 6 (pg 198-200) |
| 22 | Newton's Laws and Orbits | Chap 2 |
| 25 | Kepler's Laws: Weighing stars and planets | Chap 1 and 2 |
| 27 | Escape velocity | Chap 2 |
| 29 | Atoms and Light | Chap 3 |
| OCT 2 | Light and Spectra | Chap 3 |
| 4 | EXAM I | |
| 6 | Solar System Structure and origin | Chap 7 |
| 9 | NO CLASS | |
| 11 | The Sun and how it works | Chap 11 |
| 13 | The Sun-continued | Chap 11 |
| 16 | Solar activity | Chap 11 |
| 18 | Other Stars: parallax and inverse square law | Chap 12 |
| 20 | Measuring Properteis of stars: T, composition, and mass | Chap 12 |
| 23 | HR Diagram and sizes of stars | Chap 12 |
| 25 | Stellar Evolution | Chap 13 |
| 27 | Nuclear burning and Supernova explosions | Chap 13 |
| 30 | Dead Stars | Chap 14 |
| NOV 1 | Black Holes | Chap 14 |
| 3 | Milky Way: properties | Chap 15 |
| 6 | Milky Way Continued | Chap 15 |
| 8 | EXAM II | |
| 10 | Other Galaxies | Chap 16 |
| 13 | Hubble Law | Chap 16 |
| 15 | Active Galaxies | Chap 16 |
| 17 | Evolution of galaxies | Chap 16 |
| 20 | Galaxy Clusters | Chap 16 |
| 22 | ?????????? | Chap x |
| 24 | THANKSGIVING | Turkey eating |
| 27 | The Expanding Universe | Chap 17 |
| 29 | The Hot, young Universe | Chap 17 |
| DEC 1 | The Cosmic Microwave Background | Chap 17 |
| 4 | Olbers' Paradox | Chap 17 |
| 6 | Shape of the Universe | Chap 17 |
| 8 | Origin of the Universe | Chap 17 |
| 11 | Inflation | Chap 17 |
| 13 | EXAM III |