Note below the last day of finals - last day to withdraw and receive a "W", and last day to request a P/NP. After this, you receive a grade no matter what: I have no choice.
This semester, all quizzes will be on Canvas. The final exam will all be in the classroom
Mon Jan 26: Introduction, Syllabus, bits of Ch 1, Chapter
0 - Principles of Clear Thinking and Scientific Method , On Teaching ,
Wed Jan 28: Ch 3.5,4: Astrology as example of pseudoscience, Finish Chapter 0, On Teaching
Mon Feb 2: Ch 3 - Historical Astronomy (brief), Ch 4 - Kepler's Laws, Forces, angular momentum, and deriving the Law of Gravity from Galileo's observations
Sat Feb 7: deadline to drop/add a full term course, and get refund for drops, and deadline to drop w/o getting a "W" on your record.
Sun Feb 8: last day to drop w/o a "W" on your record
Wed Feb 4: Ch 4 - Ch 4 - Kepler's Laws, Forces, angular momentum, and deriving the Law of Gravity from Galileo's observations, Tides, properties of gravity
Mon Feb 9: Ch S1,2 - finish properties of gravity, Einstein and modern gravity.
Mon Feb 9: Census day. Faculty submit their official Census for classes
Wed Feb 11: Ch 5 - Light and Matter
Mon Feb 16- President's Day Holiday; no class
Wed Feb 18: Ch 5 - Light and Matter
Mon Feb 23: "Light and Matter", spectroscope demo
Wed Feb 25: Ch 6 - Telescopes and Detectors.
Mon Mar 2: Ch 14 - The Sun, Structure, Solar Wind.
Wed Mar 4: Ch 14 - The Sun, Fusion, Structure
Mon Mar 9: The Birth of Stars
Wed Mar 11: Sun's effect on Earth, sunspots, climate.
Mon Mar 16: Start Ch 15 - Surveying the Stars.and Ch 16 - Stellar Evolution of low mass stars
Wed Mar 18: Ch 15 - Surveying the Stars, Ch 16 - Stellar Evolution of low mass stars
Mon/Wed Mar 23 and Mar 25: Spring Break - no classes
Mon Mar 30: Evolution of medium mass stars and red giants. Evolution of binary stars and red giants
Wed Apr 1: Ch 17, 18 - High Mass Stars, Supernovae, Binary Star Evolution
Mon Apr 6: Ch 17,18 - Black Holes and stellar degeneracy
Wed Apr 8: Ch 19 - Our Milky Way Galaxy,
Thur Apr 9 - last day for Spring graduates to petition to graduate
Mon Apr 13: Ch 20 - Galaxies in general
Wed Apr 15: Ch 20,21 - Galaxy types, Galaxy evolution;
Wed Apr 23 - last day for faculty to drop a student
Wed Apr 23 - Last day to submit a W withdrawl. After this, student must take a grade
Mon Apr 20: Quasars and Active Galaxies
Wed Apr 22: Ch 21; Quasars, Ch 22 - Dark Matter; Evidence for Dark Matter
Fri Apr 24 - last day to drop a course, receive "W". After this you receive a grade no matter what.
Mon Apr 27: Dark Matter candidates and possibilities
Wed Apr 29: Dark Matter candidates and possibilities, Ch 23 - Large Scale Structure, cosmological simulations
Mon May 4: Ch 23, Large Scale Structure, Cosmological simulations
Wed May 6: Ch 23, Large Scale Structure, Dark Energy
Mon May 11: Ch 23, 24 - Inflation, the Multi-verse, the Anthropic Principle, Life and Quantum uncertainty
Wed May 13: Life and Implications for the Nature of the Universe.
May 18-22: Finals Week: Final exam Wed May 28 8-11am Graduation Ceremony May 22