Preliminary Course
Schedule
(Lecture notes are usually updated after an
entire topic has been covered in-class)
Naked-Eye Sky and Tools of Astronomy
|
| Date |
Subject of lecture notes
|
Reading (by unit
number) |
Comments
|
Jan. 26, 28
|
Introudction
|
Course website, Unit 1, 2, 3, 4
+ Appendix Scientific notation |
|
Jan. 30, Feb. 2
|
The
Sky |
5 |
Starry night software |
Feb. 4, 6
|
Cycles of the Sky |
6, 7.1-7,3, 8.1-8.2 |
Quiz
1 (Feb. 6)
|
Feb. 9, 11
|
The Origin of Modern
Astronomy |
11-12 |
HW1 due (Feb. 12) |
Feb. 13, 18, 20
|
The
Physics of Motion |
14-16, 18-20 |
HW2 due (Feb. 22) |
Feb. 23, 25, 27, March 2
|
Light: the Electromagnetic
Spectrum |
21-23 |
Quiz
2 (Feb. 23)
|
Mar. 4, 6, 9, 11
|
Atoms
and Star light |
24, 25, 26, 27.1, 30
|
HW3 (due March. 12)
Review slides
|
March 13
|
EXAM
1 |
|
|
Observing the
Universe
|
| Date |
Subject |
Reading in Text |
Comments |
Mar. 23, 25, 27
|
The
Sun -- Our Star |
49 50.1-50.3, 51 |
|
Mar. 30, Apr. 1, 3
|
Other
stars |
52.1-52.4, 54.1-54.3,
55-58 |
HW4 (due April 5) |
Apr. 6, 8, 10
|
Stellar Life and Death |
59, 61-62, 64-66 |
review2_1
Quiz
3 (Apr. 10) |
Apr. 13, 15
|
Remnants of stars |
67-68 |
|
Apr. 17,
21, 22
|
The Milky Way: Our Galactic Home |
70-73 |
HW5 due (April 23)
|
| Apr. 24, 27,
29, |
Galaxies and Active Galaxy clusters
|
74-75, 76-77, 78
|
Quiz
4 (Apr. 27) |
| May. 1, 4, 6 |
Cosmology and The Big Bang |
74.3, 79-82 |
HW6 (due May 7) |
May. 8
|
EXAM
2 |
|
Review |
May. 11
|
Student presentation, course review |
|
|
Check here
for the final exam.
Both the above class schedule and lecture notes
are tentative and will be updated.
|