My office is in the Astronomy Building, next to science hall, and just across the parking lot from the Biology Annex building. If you have any astronomy questions, feel free to stop by.I will be teaching one section of laboratory in the spring of 2011 for Professor Jason Jackiewicz. Our laboratory sections meet in Science Hall, room 114.

Attendance in lab is mandatory. If you know that you will have to miss your laboratory session one week, for a valid reason, talk to me beforehand about joining another lab section for that week. Absolutely no late work will be accepted unless discussed with me ahead of time.

You will also need to have a scientific calculator (one that can compute sines and cosines, and take square roots).

Make sure to read through each week's exercise in the lab manual before coming to lab, so that you are ready to begin.

We will also be observing at the campus observatory (on Williams St., between Stewart St. and Wells St.) twice during the semester. Be sure to bring your blank observatory notebook sheets with you, and a pen or a pencil.If you drive to the observatory, you can park in the parking lot next to the telescope domes.

I strongly recommend that you attend early each month, so that you don't have to pray for clear skies at the end of the month, and you don't have to wait in a long, long line to use the telescopes.

Here is a list of the labs in the order in which they will be done throughout the semester. If the order of any of the labs is changed, I will email everyone before Monday to let them know.

Week	Lab Name	Week of...
1	Lab 1: Tools for Success Takehome (No Class due to MLK Day but you still have to do the lab on your own)	Jan 17
2	Lab 2: Density (Lab 1 Due)	Jan 24
3	Lab 3: Scale Model of the Solar System.	Jan 31
4	Lab 4: Phases of the Moon	Feb 7
5	Lab 5: The Origin of the Seasons	Feb 14
6	Lab 6: The Orbit of Mercury	Feb 21
7	Lab 7: Kepler's Laws	Feb 28
8	Lab 8: Estimating Earth's Density	March 7
9	Lab 9: Suface of the Moon	Mar 14
10	Lab 10: Surface water flow features on Mars	Mar 28
11	Lab 11: Heat Loss from IO	Apr 4
12	Lab 12: Building a Comet	Apr 11
13	Lab 13: The Sun	Apr 18
14	Lab Review	Apr 25