Astronomy 104      Fall 2007   

Schedule and Other Useful Information

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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 chapter can also be found on the weekly schedule. Click on the week number to get the corresponding schedule. I will usually have preliminary schedules for at least a few weeks posted. Final weekly schedules will be posted by 5:00 p.m. Friday of the previous week (I will usually have them posted much earlier, but certainly by 5:00 the final version will be there). 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. 22 - Aug. 24

Celestial Coordinates, Observations, 

Ch. 1

2

Aug. 27 - Aug. 31

Radiation, Spectra, Atomic Structure

Ch. 3, 4

3

Sept. 3 - Sept. 7

Stellar Classification, Flux and Luminosity, 

Ch. 17

4

Sept.10- Sept. 14

 Magnitudes; Exam 1 

Ch.17

5

Sept. 17 - Sept. 21

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

Ch. 2, 17

6

Sept. 24 - Sept. 28

Stellar Properties, Overview of Stellar Evolution, Interstellar Medium

Ch. 17,18

7

Oct. 1 - Oct. 5

Star Formation, Star Clusters

Ch. 19

8

Oct. 8 - Oct. 12

Exam 2; Stellar Energy sources

Ch. 16

Oct. 15- Oct. 19

Fall Break

9

Oct. 22 - Oct. 26

post main sequence evolution, planetary nebula, binary systems

Ch. 20

10

Oct. 29 - Nov. 2

 Nova, Supernova, Neutron Stars, Blackholes

Ch. 21,22

11

Nov. 5- Nov. 9

Exam 3; Cepheid variable stars, intro to Milky way

Ch. 23

12

Nov. 12- Nov. 16

The Milky Way, Galaxies

Ch. 23,24

13

Nov. 19 - Nov. 23

 Distances, Hubble's Law; Thanksgiving Break