Tuesday January 21:

READING: Appendices 1 - 2; Pages 24 - 26.
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Powers of 10 Notation
• 3. Angular Measurement
• 4. Astronomical Distances
• 5. Parallax
• 6. An Overview of the Universe

Thursday January 23:

READING: Sections 3.1 - 3.4; plus pages 422-426.
• 1. Overview of the Sun
• 2. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
• 3. Temperature Scales
• 4. Thermal Radiation
• 5. Wien's Law
• 6. Stefan's Law
• 7. Inverse Square Law of Light

Tuesday January 28:

READING: Section 16.1, 16.6
• 1. The Luminosity of the Sun
• 2. Frequency
• 3. Energy
• 4. The Core of the Sun
• 5. Atoms and Subatomic Particles
• 6. Isotopes and Ionization
• 7. The Nuclear Reactions in the Sun
• 8. The Four Forces of Nature

Thursday January 25:

READING: Sections 16.2 and 16.7
• 1. The Energy Levels in Atoms
• 2. The Structure of the Sun
• 3. The Radiative Zone
• 4. Random Walks
• 5. The Convective Zone
• 6. Granules

Tuesday February 4:

READING: Chapter 4
• 1. Absorption Line Spectra
• 2. Emission Line Spectra
• 3. Kirchoff's Laws
• 4. The Spectrum of Hydrogen
• 5. Doppler Shifts
• 6. Quiz #1

Thursday February 1:

READING: Rest of Chapter 16
• 1. The Solar Neutrino Problem
• 2. Magnetic Dynamos
• 3. The Sunspot Cycle
• 4. The Differential Rotation of the Sun
• 5. Prominences and Flares
• 6. The Chromosphere
• 7. The Corona
• 8. Solar Eclipses
• 9. Pictures of the Sun

Tuesday February 11:

READING: Sections 17.1, 17.2, 17.4, 17.5
• 1. Proper Motions
• 2. Magnitudes
• 3. Absolute Magnitudes
• 4. B - V
• 5. The H-R Diagram
• 6. Stellar Sizes
• 7. Luminosity Classes

Thursday February 13:

READING: Section 17.3
• 1. Spectral Classification of Stars
• 2. Luminosity Classes Revisited
• 3. Spectroscopic Parallax

Tuesday February 18:

READING: Sections 2.7, 2.8
• 1. Mass vs. Weight
• 3. Newton's Laws of Motion
• 4. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
• 5. Orbital Motion
• 6. Newton's Revision of Kepler's 3rd Law
• 7. Center of Mass

Thursday February 20:

READING: Section 17.7
• 1. Binary Stars
• 2. Quiz #2

Tuesday February 25:

READING: Chapter 15; Rest of Chapter 17; Chapter 18
• 1. Extrasolar Planets
• 2. Brown Dwarfs
• 3. The Mass-Luminosity Relation for Main Sequence Stars
• 3. Ionized Clouds
• 4. Atomic Clouds
• 5. Molecular Clouds

Thursday February 27:

READING: Sections 15.3 and 15.4; Chapter 19
• 1. Interstellar Dust Emission
• 2. Dark Clouds
• 3. Reflection Nebulae
• 4. Reddening of Stars by Interstellar Dust
• 5. Spiral Density Waves
• 6. The Formation of Stars
• 7. Angular Momentum
• 8. Evidence for Star Formation Scenario

Tuesday March 3:

READING: Section 17.8; Sections 20.1 - 20.3, 20.5
• 1. Main Sequence Lifetimes
• 2. H-R Diagrams of Star Clusters
• 34. The Evolution of a 1 Solar Mass Star
• 4. The Triple-Alpha Process
• 5. Planetary Nebulae

Thursday March 5:

READING: Sections 20.4 - 20.5; 21.2