Physics 103:General Astronomy

Lecture notes

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Week # Lecture 1 Reading Notes last updated Lecture 2 Reading Notes last updated
1 Introduction Prologue 8/30/01 Motion of stars, planets Chapter 1 8/30/01
2 Light and Matter 1 Chapter 2 9/7/01 Light and Matter 2 Chapter 2 9/7/01
3 The Solar System 4.1, 4.3, and 8.5 9/14/01 Formation and debris 4.2 and web pages 9/14/01
4 Earth and Moon Chapter 5 9/21/01 Terrestrial Planets Chapter 6 9/21/01
5 Jovian Planets 7, 8.4 9/26/01 Moons 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 9/26/01
6 Exam #1 10/12/01
7 The Sun 9 10/19/01 Stars 10 10/19/01
8 The ISM 11 10/26/01 Stellar Evolution 12 10/26/01
9 Dead Stars 13 11/2/01 The Milky Way 14 11/5/01
10 Galaxies 15 11/9/01 Cosmology 17 11/12/01
11 Exam #2
12 Life in the Solar System web pages 11/30/01 Life: finding intelligent 18 12/1/01
Notes from Lab #1