15-Phys-121 Winter Quarter 2007:
SYLLABUS, NOTES & EXAM SCHEDULE (UPDATED!!)
Astronomy: Stars & Galaxies
Professor Margaret M. Hanson, 513-556-0524
margaret dot hanson at uc dot edu
Tuesday, Thursday, 9:30am - 10:50am, Old Chem 525
Week
Dates
Topic and Lecture Notes
Page #'s for Reading*
Lecture note pages
One
Jan 4
Light & Matter
56 - 61, 80 - 92
Light: 1-6
Two
Jan 9, 11
Light & Matter (cont.) Our Sun
198 - 215
Light: 7-9 Sun: 1-6
Three
Jan 16, 18
Characterizing Stars, (Review Test 1)
217 - 224
Stars: 1-4
Four
Tues, Jan 23
TEST 1
Jan 25
Characterizing Stars
224 - 233
Stars: 5-7
Five
Jan 30, Feb 1
Gas/Dust, Star Birth Stellar Evolution
235 - 256, 258 -270
Evol: 1-6
Six
Feb 6, 8
Stellar Death, (Review Test 2)
271 - 277
Death: 1-5
Seven
Feb 13
UC CLOSED
Feb 15
TEST 2
Eight
Feb 20, 22
Relativity/BH,
Galaxies
277 - 287, 292 - 312
Death: 6-8, Galaxies 1-4
Nine
Feb 27, Mar 1
Galaxies, Cosmology, (Review Test 3)
312-334, 338-340, 351-355
Galaxies 5-9, Cosmology 1-2
Ten
Tues, Mar 6
TEST 3
Mar 8
Review for Final (Review Sheet)
FINALS
Tues, Mar 13
8-10am, FINAL EXAM
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