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 covers 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
Jan 9 - Introduction, scale of the universe, nature of science [1.1, 1.2, first part of 1.3]
Jan 11 - Why we see the sky the way we do, seasons, phases of the moon [parts of 2.1 and 2.2, 2.3, 2.5]
Jan 13 - motions of planets, beginning of Laws of Motion, nature of science [2.3, 3.3, 3.4]
Jan 18 - Laws of motion: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler [parts of 4.1, 4.2]
Jan 20 - Newton [parts of 4.1,4.2], Tides [end of 4.4], Begin Light [5]
Jan 23,25 - Light [5.1,5.2]
Jan 27 - Finish light[5.2], then telescopes [5.3]
Jan 30 - very beginning of Introduction to the Solar System [6.1], and midterm review
Feb 1 - Midterm (22.5%)
Feb 3 - Solar System basics [6.1], Beginning of terrestial planets [latter part of 7.1, parts of 7.2]
Feb 6 - Mars and Venus [7.3 and 7.4]
Feb 8 - Planetary atmospheres, comparison of Earth, Venus, and Mars [7.3,7.4, little bit of 7.5]
Feb 10 - Jovian (Giant) Planets [8.1]
Feb 13 - Moons and Rings [parts of 8.2,8.3]
Feb 15 - Asteroids, Comets, Pluto [9]
Feb 17 - Origin of the Solar System [6.2-6.4, also p.303]
Feb 20 - Origin of Solar System, Other Planetary Systems [6.5].
Feb 22 - Other Planetary Systems, The Search for Life Elsewhere [18.4]
Feb 24 - The Sun as a Star [parts of 10.1, 10.2]
Feb 27 - review for midterm
Mar 1 - Midterm (22.5%)
Mar 3 - Surveying the Stars [11.1,11.2]
Mar 13 - Star Clusters [11.3] and the beginning of Lives of Stars [12.2-12.4]
Mar 15 - The lives of stars [12.2-12.4]
Mar 17 - Stellar Graveyard [13.1-13.3]
Mar 20 - Black Holes [13.3]
Mar 22, 24 - Our Galaxy (the Milky Way) [14.1-14.3]
Mar 27 - Other Galaxies [15.1,small part of 15.2]
Mar 29 - Galaxy Evolution [15.3]
Mar 31 - Galaxy Centers [14.4, 15.4]
Apr 3 - Dark Matter [16.1-16.2]
Apr 5 - review for midterm
Apr 7 - midterm(25%)
Apr 10 - Expansion of the Universe part 1 [primarily p. 382-388]
Apr 12 - Expansion of the Universe part 2 [p. 382-388, part of 16.4]
Apr 14 - Fate of the Universe [16.4]
Apr 17 - More Fate of the Universe [16.4]
Apr 19 - The Big Bang [parts 17.1,17.2]
Apr 21 - The Very Early Universe [17.3]
Apr 24 - More Cosmology [including 17.4]
Apr 26 - Life in the Universe (parts of Ch. 18)
Apr 28 - Course/Final Review
Final - 30%
Final is Tuesday, May 2, 8-10 PM, location TBD.

The numbers in parentheses correspond to the chapters in the book in which this material is discussed. Not all of the material in the book will 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.