Date Chapters Read Pages Topics ---- -------- ---------- ------ 1/12 Class Introduction, Outline course 1/17 History of Astronomy 1/19 2 5-25 Stellar Properties, physics of photons 1/24 3 27-47 Spectral Lines 1/26 4 49-82 Telescopes (light reading) 1/31 5 85-108 Fundamental Properties of Stars 2/2 5 85-108 Gravity, Binary Stars, Orbits 2/7 6 110-113 Solar Structure, Hydrostatic Equilibrium 2/9 6 113-128 Exterior of Sun, Radiative Transfer 2/14 6 128-134 Solar Cycle, Review for Midterm 2/16 Midterm #1 2/21 8 176-187 Star Formation, Jeans Mass, Virial Theorem 2/23 8 187-198 Protostellar Objects, Evolution to MS 15 335-353 Star formation out of interstellar medium 2/28 9 199-215 Stellar Nucleosynthesis 3/2 9 215-227 Stellar Structure, Models, Solar Neutrinos 3/7 10 229-239 Stellar Evolution - low mass stars 13 297-300 Stellar populations, cluster evolution 3/9 10 240-246 White Dwarfs, electron degeneracy 3/14-3/16 Spring Break 3/21 11 248-259 Supernovae, Neutron stars, radio pulsars 3/23 11 260-270 Radio pulsars 3/28 12 272-285 Interacting binary stars 3/30 Midterm #2 4/4 16 355-373 Milky Way, spiral structure, halo, rotation 4/6 17 375-397 Structure of Galaxies, Rotation curves 4/11 18 401-418 Hubble Expansion, large scale structure 4/13 19 419-438 Active Galactic Nuclei 4/18 20 440-450 Cosmology 4/20 20 450-458 Cosmology meets Einstein 4/25 21 460-475 Big Bang, CMB, nucleosynthesis 4/27 21 475-488 Symmetry Breaking, Inflation, ... 5/2 Final Exam - 8am in Cox 209