Below are the slides from each lecture. They will be posted the morning
after the lecture. Lectures in italics are optional
attendance days.
1/17 Introduction
1/22 telescopes, group formation
1/24 motions of the sky
1/29 EM radiation
1/31 stellar distances
2/5 review for exam one
2/7 stellar magnitudes
2/12 HR diagrams
2/14 stellar life cycles
2/19 relativity, black holes
2/21 star clusters
2/26 galaxies
2/28 Hubble's law
3/4 Extra-solar planets
3/6 review for exam two
March 11, 13: spring break
3/18 phases of the moon
3/20 eclipses, tides
3/25 seasons, calendars
3/27 measuring the sky
4/1 geocentric, Ptolemic models
4/3 heliocentric models, Galileo
4/8 Newton, Kepler
4/10 Review for exam three
4/15 The Sun
4/17 Earth
4/22 Terrestrial planets
4/24 Jupiter, Jovian planets
4/29 asteroids, meteors, comets
5/1 review for final exam