Schedule for Physics 101: Mysteries of the Sky

WARNING: This is out of date! DON"T follow it! If you don't know what to read, check the previous day's lecture notes!!!

Class materials at: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/welsch/Phys101/index.html
Date
6/28, M

6/30, W

7/2, F

7/5, M
7/7, W

7/9, F

7/12, M

7/14, W

7/16, F

7/19, M

7/21, W

7/23, F

7/26, M

7/28, W

7/30, F

8/2, M

8/4, W

8/6, F

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To Do
Pick Office Hours, Pre-test, Astronomical #'s
Celestial Sphere, Group Activity, Homework Given
Quiz, parallax, retro-motion, early cosmologies
Tycho's Data, Kepler's Laws, Group Activity
Quiz, Hwk Due, Newton's Insight, Orbits, Hwk Given
Seasons, Lunar Phases, Tides, Eclipses, Group Activity
Holiday, IAU meeting begins 7/6
Quiz, Electromagnetic Spectrum
Radiation, Group Activity
Homework Due, Observing Techniques, Review
Exam 1
Quiz, Intro. to Solar System, Homework Given
Overview of Solar System, Group Activity
Quiz, Solar System Again: Actual Debris
More Solar System: Factual Debris, Group Act
Quiz, Hwk. Due, All about the Sun...
...and more!, Group Activity, Star Party
Quiz, Stellar Spectra, Homework Given
The H-R diagram, Group Activity
Quiz, Stellar Evolution
Extrasolar Planets, Group Activity
Homework Due, More Stellar Evolution, Review
Exam 2
Quiz, Stars' Deaths, Stellar Remnants, Hwk Given
An Hour General Relativity, Group Activity
Quiz, Standard Candles
Insterstellar Stuff, Group Activity
Quiz, Homework Due, Our Galaxy
More Exciting Galaxies, Group Activity, Star Party
Quiz, Extragalactic Structure, Homework Given
Activity Reports, Dark Matter, Group Activity
Quiz, The Big Bang...
... And Its Aftermath, Group Activity
Homework Due, Review
Final Exam
Text to be Covered*


Preface, Ch. 1

Ch. 2, Ch. 3


Ch. 4

Part of Ch. 5

Ch. 6, Parts of Ch. 7-10

Parts of Chs. 11-13

Ch. 14, Ch. 15

CH. 16, some Ch. 17

finish Ch. 17, Parts of Ch. 20

Parts of Ch. 21

Parts of Ch. 22, Ch. 23

Chs. 18, 19

Parts of Chs. 24-26

Ch. 27

Ch.28




* This tentative, lesson-by-lesson schedule only outlines the reading assignments. Specific reading assignments will be made at the end of each day's second lecture, and will be listed on the web as they are made.