READING (Units)

Monday
(lecture)

Tuesday
(sections)

Wednesday
(lecture)

Thursday
(sections)

Friday
(lecture)

Units 52, 54, 55, 57, 58

22 Introduction. to Stars

23 Vocabulary; Parallax tutorial

24 Classifying Stars; HRD

25 Parallax of Stars

26 Celestial Distances

Units 59 - 62, 69

29 ISM and Star Birth

30 Discussion; Star formation lifetimes tutorial

11 Star birth and middle-age

1-November Review and Discussion

2 Star Clusters

Units 64 - 67

5 Evolution of Low-Mass Stars

6 Ages from CMDs tutorial

7 Evolution of High-Mass Stars

8 Determining cluster ages from CMDs

9 Bizarre Stellar Graveyard

Unit 68

12 Veteran's Day

13 Discussion on black holes

14 Black Holes

15 Review

16 Exam 2

Units 63, 70 - 73

19 Variable Stars as Distance Indicators

20 Discussion
Exam 2

21 Observations of Milky Way

22 Thanksgiving

23 Holiday

Units 74 - 76

26 Galaxies; Galaxy Clusters

27 RR Lyrae and Distance to COG

28 Birth and evolution of galaxies
Tutorial: Look-back time I

29Tutorials: Looking at Distant Objects II; Look-back time and galaxy evolution

30 Cosmic Distance Scale
Tutorial: Expansion of Universe

Units 78-84

3-December Video: Runaway Universe

4 Tutorial: Measurement of Cosmic Distances

5 Big Bang to Big Freeze

6 Expansion of Balloon Universe activity

7 Life in Universe
Extra-Solar Planets

Review Session for final to be held Friday, December 7, 2:30 - 3:20 pm, ARC 147.

Monday, 10-December 8:30 - 10:20 am

FINAL EXAM