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.
By popular demand, all quizzes will be on Canvas. This will also save time for us for lectures during our precious classroom time. We can discuss whether you want the Final exam on Canvas, with expanded unlock time, or just the 3 hrs but live in the classroom. Last semester, the vote was for on Canvas.
Mon Jan 29 : Introduction, syllabus, bits of Ch 1, Chapter
0 - Principles of Clear Thinking and Scientific Method , On Teaching , Ch 3.5,4: Astrology as example of bogus pseudoscience
Wed Jan 31: Finish Chapter 0, On Teaching , Ch 3 - Historical Astronomy (brief),
Mon Feb 5: Ch 4 - Kepler's Laws, Forces, angular momentum, and deriving the Law of Gravity from Galileo's observations
Sat Feb 10: 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
Wed Feb 7: Ch 4 - Tides, properties of gravity, Ch S1,2 - Einstein and Modern Gravity
Mon Feb 12: Ch S1,2 - Einstein and modern gravity, Ch 5 - Light and Matter
Mon Feb 12: Census submittal deadline at 11:59pm
Wed Feb 14: Ch 5 - Light and Matter
Mon Feb 19- President's Day Holiday; no class
Wed Feb 21: finish up "Light and Matter"
Mon Feb 26: Ch 6 - Telescopes and Detectors.
Wed Feb 28: Ch 14 - The Sun, Fusion, Structure
Mon Mar 4: Ch 14 - The Sun, Structure, Solar Wind.
Wed Mar 6: Sun's effect on Earth, sunspots, climate. Start Ch 15 - Surveying the Stars.
Mon Mar 11: Ch 15 - Surveying the Stars, Ch 16 - The Birth of Stars. Zoom recording from a past class
Wed Mar 13: Ch 16 - The Birth of Stars and Stellear Evolution of low mass stars (Zoom recording from a past class)
Mon Mar 18: Ch 17 - Ch 17 - Stellar Evolution of low mass stars and medium mass stars
Wed Mar 20: Evolution of medium mass stars and red giants
Mon/Wed Mar 25 and 27: Spring Break - no class
Mon Apr 1: Cesar Chavez Day - holiday, no classes.
Wed Apr 3: Ch 17, 18 - High Mass Stars, Supernovae, Binary Star Evolution
Mon Apr 8: Ch 17,18 - Black Holes and stellar degeneracy
Wed Apr 9: Ch 19 - Our Milky Way Galaxy,
Mon Apr 15: Ch 20 Galaxies in general
Wed Apr 17: Ch 20,21 - Galaxy types, Galaxy evolution
Mon Apr 22: Quasars and Active Galaxies
Wed Apr 24: Ch 21; Quasars, Ch 22 - Dark Matter; Evidence for Dark Matter
Mon Apr 29: Dark Matter candidates and possibilities
Wed May 1: Chap 24, Dark Matter,
Mon May 6: Ch 23, Large Scale Structure, cosmological simulations
Wed May 8: Ch 23, Large Scale Structure, Dark Energy
Mon May 13: Ch 23, 24 - Inflation, the Multi-verse, the Anthropic Principle, Life and quantum uncertainty
Wed May 15: Life and implications for the Nature of the Universe.
May 20-24: Finals Week: Zoom session (optional) from 8-10am Wed May 22.
May 24 - Graduation ceremony in the stadium
May 27 11:59pm - Deadline for grade submissions by Instructors