Note this is designed only to provide a guide to what is covered in class. The lectures will not follow the book verbatim, and what is emphasized in the lectures will be emphasized on the tests. Two important notes are the book is cofers many more areas in more detail than we can in this class, and the schedule is updated as we go, so it is accurate for the past, and a guide for the future.

Schedule
Aug 25 - Introduction, scale of the universe, nature of science [1.1, 1.2, a little 3.5]
Aug 27 - Why we see the sky the way we do, seasons, phases of the moon [2.3, 2.5]
Aug 29 - motions of planets, beginning of Laws of Motion [3.4, start of 5]
Sept 3 - Laws of motion: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton [5.1-5.4]
Sept 5,8 - Light, Radiation and Spectra [6]
Sept 10 - finish up Light, Radiation, Spectra
Sept 12 - Telescopes [7.2, a little 7.4 and 7.5]
Sept 15 - Introduction to the Solar System [8.1-8.2, a little 8.3],
Sept 17 - midterm review
Sept 19 - Midterm (25%)
Sept 22 - Terrestial planet geology and the Moon [parts of 10]
Sept 24 - Planetary atmospheres, comparison of Earth, Venus, and Mars [11.1-2, 11.6]
Sept 26 - The Giant Planets [12.1-3]
Sept 29 - Finish Giant Planets, Rings [12.5-12.6]
Oct 1 - Asteroids, Comets, Pluto [13]
Oct 3 - Origin of the Solar System [9.1-9.5]
Oct 6 - The Birth of Stars and the Search for Planets [9.6, 14.5].
Oct 10 - The Search for Life Elsewhere [parts of 24]
Oct 13 - The Sun as a Star [15]
Oct 15 - review for midterm
Oct 17 - Midterm (20%)
Oct 20, 22, - Analyzing Starlight, Types of Stars [16]
Oct 24, 27 - The lives of stars, nucleosynthesis [17, parts of 18]
Oct 29, 31 - Our Galaxy (the Milky Way) [19.1-19.4], Dark Matter [22.1-22.2]
Nov 3 - Other Galaxies [20]
Nov 5 - Galaxy Evolution [21.1-21.4]
Nov 7 - Galaxy Centers [19.5, 21.5]
Nov 10 - Black Holes [18.4]
Nov 12 - review for midterm
Nov 14 - Midterm 25%
Nov. 17, 19, 21 - Expansion of the Universe [20.3-4,22.5-6, 23.1-23.2]
Nov 24 - Spacetime and Gravity [S3]
Nov 26 - The Very Early Universe [23.3]
Dec 1 - Recent Breakthroughs in Cosmology, part 1
Dec 3 - Recent Breakthroughs in Cosmology, part 2
Dec 5 - Course/Final Review
Final - 30%
Final is Thursday, December 11, 8-10 PM, in 1281 Anthony Hall

The numbers in parentheses correspond to the chapters in the book in which this material is discussed. A substantial fraction of the book material will not be covered on exams (this will be noted in class), and material not in the book may be discussed in class. All subjects discussed in class may be on the tests/exams.