Class #1 (August 19): Introduction. (Read Chapter 1)

Class #2 (August 22): The Dawn of Astronomy (Read Chapter 3)

Class #3 (August 24): Celestial Cycles and Patterns (Read Chapter 2)

Class #4 (August 26): Motions of the Planets--the Geocentric Model (Chap. 2 cont.)

Class #5 (August 29): The Origin of the Seasons and Why the Sun and Moon Behave the Way They Do (Chap. 2 cont.)

Class #6 (August 31): The Origin of Eclipses, and the Rise of the Heliocentric Theory (Chap. 5)

Class #7 (September 2): Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, etc...

Class #8 (September 7): The Earth

Class #9 (September 9): the Earth continued.

Class #10 (September 12): The Moon

Class #11 (September 14): Mercury and Venus

Class #12 (September 16): Mars (Chap. 10)

Class #13 (September 19): The "Jovian" Planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (Chap. 11)

Class #14 (September 21): Jovian planets continued.

Class #15 (September 23): Remnants of Rock and Ice: Pluto, Asteroids, and Comets (Chap. 12), Exam Review

Class #16 (September 26): Exam #1. Closed book, closed notes!

Class #17 (September 28):Atomic Structure, Processes, and the Nature of Light (Chap. 6)

Class #18 (September 30): Atomic structure continued

Class #19 (October 3): The Sun, our nearest star (Ch. 15)

Class #20 (October 5): The Formation of the Solar System (Chap. 8)

Class #21 (October 7): Nuclear physics and nuclear fusion. Parallax (Chap. 14, and some of 15)

Class #22 (October 10): The Properties of Stars (Chap. 15)

Class #23 (October 12): The Lives of Stars (Chap. 16)

Class #24 (October 14): The Lives of High Mass Stars-The Formation of Neutron stars and Black Holes (Chap. 16 & 17)

Class #25 (October 17): Stellar Endproducts, Star Clusters and Star Formation Regions (Chapters 17 and 18)

Class #26 (October 19): Stars Continued---some physics of gravity

Class #27 (October 21): Finish-up on stars, review for Exam #2

Class #28 (October 24): Exam #2

Class #29 (October 26): Optics and Telescopes, and the Milky Way Galaxy (Chap. 18)

Class #30 (October 28): The Cosmic Distance Scale Ladder, and the Understanding of the "Spiral Nebulae" (Chap. 19)

Class #31 (October 31): Types of Galaxies (Chap. 19)

Class #32 (November 2): The Formation and History of Galaxies (Chap. 20)

Seasons review

Class #33 (November 4): Large Scale Structure, and the Paradoxes of Olbers and Newton (Chap. 21)

Class #34 (November 7): The Expanding Universe (Chap. 22)

Class #35 (November 9): The expanding Universe continued...

Class #36 (November 11): The Big Bang Model for the Origin of the Universe (Chap. 22)

Class #37 (November 14): The Big Bang continued....

Class #38 (November 16): What this all means, and the ultimate fate of the Universe.

Class #39 (November 18):Is There Life Out There? A Short History (Chap. 13) and Life in our Solar System? [Note: Final observing materials due the next week's lab!]

Class #40 (November 28): The Potential for Life In and Beyond the Solar System (Chap. 24) and Interstellar Space Travel

Class #41 (November 30): Exam Review, course evaluation

Class #42 (December 2): Exam #3

Homework #1 (Due Sep. 7, 2011)

Homework #2 (Due Sep. 14, 2011)

Homework #3 (Due Sep. 23, 2011)

Homework #4 (Due Oct. 5, 2011)

Homework #5 (Due Oct. 14, 2011)

Homework #6 (Due Oct. 21, 2011)

Homework #7 Cancelled! Do only if you want to use it for a make-up assignement. (Due Oct. 31, 2011)

Homework #8 (Due Nov. 11, 2011)

Homework #9 (Due Nov. 18, 2011)

Homework #10 (Due Nov. 28, 2011)

Make-up Assignment for those with EXCUSED absences that missed a Quiz (due on or before December 5th).

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