| ASTRONOMY 106: HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY | ||||||||
| Fall 2006 Ticket Number 2514 Tuesday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. | ||||||||
| Schedule subject to change: Any significant change will be announced | ||||||||
| in class and on this website | ||||||||
| Topic | Slides | Cambridge | ||||||
| August | ||||||||
| 15 - 17 | Introduction; Basic Motions of the Sky I | 01, 02 | ||||||
| 22 - 24 | Basic Motions of the Sky II | 03 | ||||||
| 29 - 31 | Stonehenge and Maya | 04,05.06 | Chap 1 | |||||
| September | ||||||||
| 5 - 7 | Test#1; Classical Antiquity | 07 | Chaps 2, 3 | |||||
| 12 - 14 | Classical Antiquity; Middle Ages | 07,08 | Chaps 2, 3, 4 | |||||
| 19 - 21 | Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler; Galileo | 09 (I and 2) | Chap 5 | |||||
| 26 - 28 | Test#2; ; Newton and Gravity | 10 | Chap 6 (pp. 130-148) | |||||
| October | ||||||||
| 3 - 5 | Light; Optical Instruments | 11, 12 | Chap 5 (pp. 125 - 129) | |||||
| 10 - 12 | William Herschel and Stellar Astronomy; Parallax | 14, 15 | Chap 7 (pp. 201 - 212) | |||||
| 17 - 19 | Test #3; The New Astronomy; Properties of Stars | 16, 17 | Chap 8 | |||||
| 24 - 26 | The Great Debate; Hubble Settles the Great Debate | 18, 19 | Chap 8 (pp.290 - 305) | |||||
| November | ||||||||
| 31 (Oct) - 2 | Atoms and the Universe; "Ring of Truth" | 20 | ||||||
| 7 - 9 | Test #4; How Does the Sun Shine? | 21 | ||||||
| 14 - 16 | Stellar Evolution; "Supernova 1987a" | 22 | ||||||
| 21 - 23 | Relativity; Black Holes; Thanksgiving | 23 | ||||||
| 28 - 30 | Test #5; Cosmology | 24 | ||||||
| December | ||||||||
| 5 - 7 | Cosmology; Life in the Universe | 24 | ||||||
| 12 | FINAL | |||||||
| Last day to withdraw without W: September 15 | ||||||||
| Last day to withdraw with W: November 18 | ||||||||