Preliminary Course
Schedule
(Lecture notes are usually updated after an
entire topic has been covered in-class)
Observing the
Sky and Tools of Astronomy
|
| Date |
Subject of lecture notes
|
Reading (by unit
number) |
Comments
|
Sept. 4
and 6
|
Introudction
(lecture #1 and #2)
|
Course website, Unit 1, 2, 3, 4
+ Appendix Scientific notation |
|
Sept. 11
|
The
Sky |
5 |
Starry night software |
Sept. 13, 18
|
Cycles of the Sky |
6, 7.1-7,3, 8.1-8.2 |
Quiz
1 (Sept. 18)
|
Sept. 20
|
The Origin of Modern
Astronomy |
11-12 |
HW1 due (Sept. 20) |
Sept. 25, 27
|
The
Physics of Motion |
14-16, 18-20 |
HW2 due (Sept. 30) |
Oct. 2, 4
|
Light: the Electromagnetic
Spectrum |
21-23 |
Quiz
2 (Oct. 2)
|
Oct. 11, 16
|
Atoms
and Star light |
24, 25, 26, 27.1, 30
|
HW3 due (Oct. 17)
|
| Oct. 18 |
EXAM
1 |
|
Review
slides
|
Observing the
Universe
|
| Date |
Subject |
Reading in Text |
Comments |
Oct. 23, 25
|
The
Sun -- Our Star |
49 50.1-50.3, 51 |
|
Oct. 30, Nov. 1
|
Other
stars |
52.1-52.4, 54.1-54.3,
55-58 |
HW4 due (Nov. 5) |
Nov. 6, 8
|
Stellar Life and Death |
59, 61-62, 64-66 |
Quiz
3 (Nov. 8) |
Nov 13
|
Remnants of stars |
67-68 |
|
Nov. 15,
20
|
The Milky Way: Our Galactic Home |
70-73 |
HW5 due (Nov. 26)
|
| Nov. 27, 29
|
Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei
Galaxy clustering and
Dark Matter
|
74-75, 76-77, 78
|
Quiz
4 (Nov. 27) |
| Dec. 4, 6 |
Cosmology and The Big Bang |
74.3, 79-82 |
HW6 due (Dec. 10) |
| Dec. 11 |
EXAM
2 |
|
Review |
| Dec. 13 |
Student presentation, course review |
|
|
Check here
for the final exam.
Both the above class schedule and lecture notes
are tentative and will be updated.
|