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Lecture notes will be posted to the webpage following class. You will need Adobe Acrobat to read them. |
| Week 1 | ||
| May 23: | General Course Overview [18 Mb] | |
| May 24: | Our Place in the Universe [23 Mb] | |
| May 25: | Motion, Seasons, and the Moon [8.6 Mb] | |
| May 26: | Phases of the Moon, Eclipses, Celestial sphere [6.2 Mb] | |
| May 27: | Celestial Sphere, Retrograde planetary motion, Polynesian voyaging [21.5 Mb] | |
| Week 2 | ||
| May 31: | Ancient Greek Astronomy, Scientific Method [7.1 Mb] | |
| June 1: | Basic physics, Newton's laws of motion, the Universal Law of Gravitation [5.8 Mb] | |
| June 2: | Newton's extension of Kepler's Laws, Tides, Conservation Laws, Energy [13.6 Mb] | |
| June 3: | Energy, Properties of Light [7.4 Mb] | |
| Week 3 | ||
| June 6: | Telescopes, Tour of the Solar System [31 Mb] | |
| June 7: | Origin of Our Solar System [15.7 Mb] | |
| June 8: | Geological Activity on Earth and Comparisons to the Other Terrestrial Planets [17 Mb] | |
| June 9: | Jovian Planetary Systems [14.7 Mb] | |
| Week 4 | ||
| June 14: | The Sun [19.5 Mb] | |
| June 15: | Stellar Properties [9.6 Mb] | |
| June 16: | H-R Diagram, Birth of Stars [23 Mb] | |
| June 17: | Life and Death of Low and High Mass Stars [12 Mb] | |
| Week 5 | ||
| June 20: | Binary Stars and Black Holes [8.9 Mb] | |
| June 21: | Black Holes and the Milky Way Galaxy [21 Mb] | |
| June 22: | Galaxy Classification and the Cosmological Distance Ladder [63 Mb] | |
| June 23: | Galaxy Evolution [31 Mb] | |
| June 24: | AGN and Dark Matter [6.5 Mb] | |
| Week 6 | ||
| June 27: | Dark Matter, Structure Formation, Fate of the Universe, Big Bang Overview [14.3 Mb] | |
| June 28: | Big Bang, Inflation, Extrasolar Planets [18.5 Mb] | |
| June 29: | Life in the Universe [7.3 Mb] |