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. 19, 21
|
Introduction
|
Course website, Unit 1, 2, 3, 4
+ Appendix Scientific notation |
|
Jan. 26
|
The
Sky |
5 |
Starry night software |
Jan. 28, Feb. 2.
|
Cycles of the Sky |
6, 7.1-7,3, 8.1-8.2 |
Quiz
1
(Feb.
2)
|
Feb. 4
|
The Origin of Modern
Astronomy |
11-12 |
HW1 due (Feb. 5) |
Feb. 9, 11
|
The
Physics
of
Motion |
14-16, 18-20 |
HW2 due (Feb. 13) |
Feb. 18, 23
|
Light: the Electromagnetic
Spectrum |
21-23 |
Quiz
2
(Feb.
18)
|
| Feb. 25, Mar. 2, 4 |
Atoms
and Star light |
24, 25, 26, 27.1, 30
|
HW3 (due March. 5)
|
March 9
March 11
|
Review
EXAM
1 |
|
Review
slides
|
Observing the
Universe
|
| Date |
Subject |
Reading in Text |
Comments |
Mar. 23
|
The
Sun
--
Our
Star |
49 50.1-50.3, 51 |
|
Mar. 25, 30
|
Other
stars |
52.1-52.4, 54.1-54.3,
55-58 |
HW4 (due Mar. 31) |
Apr. 1, 6
|
Stellar Life and Death |
59, 61-62, 64-66 |
review2_1
Quiz
3 (Apr. 6) |
Apr. 8
|
Remnants of stars |
67-68 |
|
Apr. 13,
15
|
The Milky Way: Our Galactic Home |
70-73 |
HW5 due (April 16)
|
| Apr. 20, 22
|
Galaxies and Active Galaxy clusters
|
74-75, 76-77, 78
|
Quiz
4
(Apr.
20) |
April 27, 29
|
Cosmology and The Big Bang |
74.3, 79-82 |
HW6 (due April 30) |
May. 4
|
EXAM
2 |
|
Review |
Check here
for the final exam.
Both the above class schedule and lecture notes
are tentative and will be updated.
|