Astronomy 104      Fall 2002    Schedule

This is a tentative listing of dates and topics. The readings listed are from the text. For many topics, there will be additional readings outside the text. These will be listed on the a detailed weekly schedule, along with more specific details about the text sections. The detailed weekly schedule also gives assignments and shows their due dates. A link to study questions for each week can also be found on the weekly schedule. Weekly schedules will be posted by 5:00 p.m. Friday of the previous week. Click on the week number to get the corresponding schedule. Please note that any weekly schedule with the label "preliminary" is just that: its a preliminary estimate of what I think we will be doing. At the end of each week, I will assess where we are, and make changes to the next week's schedule if necessary. If you print out a preliminary version of a weekly schedule, please be sure to check for changes. 

Week

Dates

Class Topic

Text reading

1

Aug. 21 - Aug. 23

Celestial Coordinates, Observations, 

Ch. 1

2

Aug. 26 - Aug. 30

Radiation, Spectra, Atomic Structure

Ch. 3, 4

3

Sept. 2 - Sept. 6

Stellar Classification, Flux and Luminosity, 

Ch. 17

4

Sept. 9- Sept. 13

 Magnitudes; Newton's Laws, 

Ch.17

5

Sept. 16 - Sept. 20

HR Diagram, Kepler's Laws; Binary Stars, Stellar Masses, spectroscopic parallax

Ch. 2, 17

6

Sept. 23 - Sept. 27

Stellar Properties, Star Clusters

Exam 1

Ch. 17

7

Sept. 30 - Oct. 4 

Overview of Stellar Evolution, Interstellar Medium

Ch. 18

8

Oct. 7 - Oct. 11

S tar Formation, Main Sequence Lifetime

Ch. 19, 20

9

Oct. 14 - Oct. 18 

post main sequence evolution, planetary nebula, binary systems

Ch. 20

Oct. 22 - Oct. 26

Fall Break

10

Oct. 28 - Nov. 1

Star Clusters, Nova, Supernova

Ch. 21

11

Nov. 4 - Nov. 8

Exam 2

Neutron Stars, Black Holes

Ch. 22

12

Nov. 11 - Nov. 15

Cepheid variables, The Milky Way, Normal Galaxies

Ch. 23

13

Nov. 18 - Nov. 22

 Distances, Hubble's Law