Spring 2003            Ticket Number 8014   (15 week course : Begins February 4;  meets Tuesdays 3:00 - 6:45)
	Topic	Reading	Online Notes	Online Slides
February
4	Introduction; Basic Motions of the Sky	A: preface, 1, 2	1, 2
11	Stonehenge; Mayan astronomy	A:3, 4		1, 2
18	Test #1 Classicial Antiquity	A:  6	3, 4	3
25	Medieval Cosmos; Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Galileo	P:  1, 2	5 - 9	4, 5
March
4	Newton and Gravity; Light	P:  2, 3, 4	10 - 12; 15, 16	7, 12
11	Test #2;  Optical Instruments;From Galileo to Newton	P:  4; C: 3	10, 11, 12, 13	5, 6, 7
18	William Herschel and Stellar Astronomy	C: 1, 2, 3	14 - 18	9
25	Stellar Parallax; The New Astronomy; The Great Debate	P: 4, 5; C:2, 5, 7	15 - 19	10 - 14
April
1	Test#3; Edwin Hubble; Atoms	P:  5;  C: 9	20, 21	15, 16
8	How Does the Sun Shine; Stellar Evolution		22, 24	16, 17
15	SPRING BREAK
22	White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, Relativity&Black Holes		23, 25	17
29	Test #4;  Galaxies and the Structure of the Universe	P: 6	26	18
May
6	Project Due 5/6; Cosmology	P:  6	26	18
13	Life in the Universe
20	FINAL	A = Aveni	P =  Panek	C= Crowe