See Assignments and Due Dates for more detailed information and link to course pack materials.
| Sun | Mon (80 min) | Tues | Wed (80 min) | Thu | Fri (110 min) | Sat |
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| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | Jan-1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 Syllabus, misconceptions, celestial sphere |
6 | 7 Reports on ancients; Planetarium (celestial motions) | 8 | 9 Distance to Moon and Sun | 10 |
| 11 | 12 Ptolemy, Copernicus; Planetarium (retrograde) | 13 | 14 Changing size of Moon; phases of Moon and Venus | 15 | 16 Frames of Reference Project | 17 |
| 18 | 19 HOLIDAY Martin Luther King Jr. Day | 20 | 21Frames of Reference; Galileo | 22 | 23[planned]Galileo, Kepler, Newton, "Find g" [reality] Galileo, Kepler | 24 |
| 25 | 26 [planned]Birth and evolution of stars; stellar evolution game [reality] Newton, "Find g" | 27 | 28 [planned] Stellar evolution; Equivalence Principle [reality] Orbits, Einstein's gravity | 29 | 30 Formation and Evolution of stars
Equivalence principle; Video: Black Holes the Ultimate Abyss (55 min) |
31 |
| Feb-1 | 2 Death of Stars; Black Holes; SMBH | 3 |
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Accessing your graded reading quizzes
*Midterm* - Take home. Due 9-Feb, 1:15 pm |
5 | 6 Video: Beyond the Big Bang (90 min) + Discussion | 7 |
| 8 | 9 Milky Way; galaxies | 10 | 11 Large-Scale Structure; An Expanding Universe | 12 | 13 Hubble's Law BRING LAPTOPS | 14 |
| 15 | 16 HOLIDAY President's Day | 17 | 18 Galaxies, galaxy formation, quasars; Look-back Time | 19 | 20 Hubble Deep Field Video: The Runaway Universe - Dark Energy |
21 |
| 22 | 23 Dark Matter; Dark Energy | 24 | 25 The First 3 Minutes | 26 | 27Curvature of Space | 28 |
| Mar-1 | 2 No formal class Drop-In Discussions on Talks |
3 | 4Fate of the Universe | 5 | 6 Video: The Elegant Universe + discussion | 7 |
| 8 | 9 - Student Presentations | 10 | 11 - Student Presentations | 12 | 13 Student Presentations | 14 |
| 15 | 16 Final Exam - open book, open notes; Exam due March 19, midnight. |
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