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| Week 1: The Big Picture |  Introduction, P1-1 through P1-7,8-1, 1-3, 1-4, 9-1, 9-2 |
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| Jan 16: First Day of Class -- Lecture 1: Introduction, Classical Mechanics & Light | |
| Jan 18: Lecture 2: Classical Mechanics, Light, and Astronomical Telescopes (cont.) | |
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| Week 2: Light | 8-1, 1-3, 1-4, 9-1, 9-2,8-2
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| Jan 21: Martin Luther King Holiday | |
| Jan 23: Lecture 3: The Nature of Light/Great Laws of Microscopic Physics | |
| Jan 25: review/problem solving | |
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| Week 3: Great Laws of Microscopic/Macroscopic Physics | 8-6, 8-7, 10 |
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| Jan 28: Lecture 4: Great Laws of Microscopic Physics/Sun as a Star
.............HOMEWORK 1 DUE | |
| Jan 30: Lecture 5: The Sun as a Star (cont.) | |
| Feb 1: Lecture 6: Nuclear Energy and Nucleosynthesis | |
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| Week 4: Nuclear Energy and Nucleosynthesis | 10, 16-5 |
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| Feb 4: Lecture 7: Nuclear Energy and Nucleosynthesis (cont.) | |
| Feb 6: review/problem solving | |
| Feb 8: class canceled | |
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| Week 5: End States of Stars | 17 |
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| Feb 11: Lecture 8: End States of Stars: White Dwarfs .....HOMEWORK 2 DUE | |
| Feb 13: Lecture 9: End States of Stars: Neutron Stars/Black Holes | |
| Feb 15:Lecture 10 Black Holes (cont.)/The HR diagram | |
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| Week 6: Stellar Evolution | 16 |
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| Feb 18: review/problem solving | |
| Feb 20: Lecture 11 HR diagram (cont.)/main sequence | |
| Feb 22: Lecture 12 Low mass star evolution
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| Week 7: HR Diagram | 11,13 |
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| Feb 25:Lecture 13 High mass stellar evolution/supernova | |
| Feb 27:Lecture 14 Binary Stars | |
| Feb 29: review/problem solving | |
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| Week 8: Stellar Evolution (cont.) | 16,11 |
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| Mar 3: Lecture 15 Variable Stars
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| Mar 5: MIDTERM EXAM | |
| Mar 7: Lecture 16 Distances in Our Galaxy and Star Clusters | |
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| Week 9: The Milky Way Galaxy | 15 |
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| Mar 10: Lecture 17 Milky Way Structure and Kinematics | |
| Mar 12: Lecture 18 Milky Way Structure and Kinematics | |
| Mar 14:Lecture 19 Milky Way Structure (+ Nucleus and Halo) | |
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| Week 10: Spring Break |
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| Week 11: The Material between the Stars | 14, 19, 20 |
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| Mar 24: review/problem solving | |
| Mar 26:Lecture 20 The Interstellar Medium | |
| Mar 28:Lecture 21 The Interstellar Medium/Star formation
................HOMEWORK 5 DUE!!! | |
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| Week 12: Our Local Universe | 21 |
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| Mar 31:Lecture 22 Galaxy Properties | |
| Apr 2:Lecture 23 Galaxy Properties | |
| Apr 4: CLASS CANCELLED | |
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| Week 13: Galaxies | 22, 23 |
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| Apr 7:Lecture 24 Galaxy Properties/Environment | |
| galaxy movie link and cluster movie link | |
| Apr 9:Lecture 25 Galaxy Properties/Environments | |
| Apr 11: Review/Discussion | |
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| Week 14: Active Galaxies/Expansion of the Universe | 22, 24 |
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| Apr 14:Lecture 26 Active Galaxies
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| Apr 16:Lecture 27 Redshift, Distances and Hubble's Law | |
| Apr 18: review/problem solving | |
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| Week 15: Large-Scale Structure/The Big Bang | 25, 26 |
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| Apr 21:Lecture 28 The Big Bang | |
| Apr 23:Lecture 29 Cosmology | |
| Apr 25:Lecture 30 The Nature of Dark Matter | |
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| Week 16: Unknowns | |
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| Apr 28:Lecture 31 The Nature of Dark Matter | |
| Apr 30:Lecture 32 The Case for Dark Energy
................HOMEWORK 7 DUE!!! | |
| May 2: Lecture 33 The High-z Universe/Review-Future | |
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| Week 17: Future/Overview |
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| May 5: Lecture 34 Future Areas of Research | |
| May 7: Lecture 35 Last Day of Class Overview/Review | |
| May 12: FINAL EXAM 11 AM - 1 PM |