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Physics 111 Fall 2015 Course Calendar | 
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Physics 111 Fall 2015 Course Calendar |
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Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| Week 1 | 24
Lecture: Course Policy & Overview Video: (part of) The Original Cosmos; The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean | 25 | 26
Lecture: Some Important Concepts & Numbers Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 1 | 27 | 28
Lecture: The Sky from Earth Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 2 |
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| Week 2 | 8/31
Lecture: The Motion of the Moon & Eclipses Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 2 MA Intro due by 2:30 pm | 1 | 2
Lecture: Was Ptolemy Pstupid? Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 3 | 3 | 4
Lecture: Kepler's Laws Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 3 Week 3
| 7
| Labor Day No Class! 
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| 9
| Lecture: Newton & Gravity Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 4 Chap 1 HW due by 11:00 pm 10
| 11
| Video: Newton's Dark Secrets Week 4
| 14
| Lecture: Light and Matter Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 5 Chap 2 HW due by 11:00 pm 15
| 16
| Lecture: Telescopes - Light Buckets Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 5 Chap 3 HW due by 11:00 pm 17
| 18
| Video: Hubble's 25th Anniversary Chap 4 HW due by 11:00 pm Week 5
| 21
| EXAM 1Chap 5 HW due by 2:30 pm 22
| Extra Credit Seminar 7:30pm Hall Auditorium 23
| Video: Nova: To the Moon, Part 1 24
| 25
| Lecture: The Solar System; An Overview Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 6 Week 6
| Extra Credit Opportunity Lunar Eclipse Sunday 9/27 Eclipse Viewing Plans 28
| Lecture: The Earth Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 7 29
| 30
| Lecture: The Moon Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 7 |
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| Week 6 | 1 | 2
Video: Nova: To the Moon, Part 2 Week 7
| 5
| Lecture: Venus and Mars Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 7 Chap 6 HW due by 11:00 pm 6
| 7
| Video: Will humans ever go to Mars? The Mars Underground 8
| 9
| Fall Break No Class!
Week 8
| 12
| Lecture: The Jovian Planets Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 8 13
| Chap 7 HW due by 11:00 pm 14
| Lecture: Solar System Junk Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 9 15
| 16
| Video: NOVA: Russian Meteor Chap 8 HW due by 11:00 pm Week 9
| 19
| Lecture: Extrasolar Planetary Systems Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 10 Chap 9 HW due by 11:00 pm 20
| 21
| EXAM 2Chap 10 HW due by 2:30 pm 22
| 23
| Lecture: The Sun: Structure Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 11 Week 10
| 26
| Lecture: The Sun: Energy Production Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 11 27
| 28
| Video: NOVA: Einstein Revealed, Part 1 29
| 30
| Lecture The Nature of Stars Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 12 |
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| Week 11 | 2
Lecture: Stellar Evolution 1: Birth and Middle Age Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 13 Chap 11 HW due by 11:00 pm | 3 | 4
Lecture: Stellar Evolution 2: Death Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 13 | 5 | 6
Film: NOVA: Einstein Revealed Part 2 Chap 12 HW due by 11 pm Week 12
| 9
| Lecture: Stellar Remnants: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, & Black Holes Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 14 Chap 13 HW due by 11 pm 10
| 11
| Video: Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Black Hole? Extra Credit Movie: Deep Impact 8:00 pm 319 KRG 12
| 13
| EXAM 3Week 13
| 16
| Lecture: The Milky Way Galaxy Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 15 17
| 18
| Lecture: Galaxies Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 16 Extra Credit Movie: Interstellar 8:00 pm 319 KRG 19
| 20
| Video: Stephen Hawking's Universe, Cosmology Week 14
| 23
| Lecture Cosmology: The Origin of the Universe Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 17 Chap 15 & 16 HW due by 11:00 pm 24
| 25
| Thanksgiving No Class!
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| 27
| Thanksgiving No Class!
Week 15
| 30
| Video: Most of Our Universe is Missing |
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| Week 15 | 1 | 2
Lecture: The Fate of the Universe, Dark Matter, & Dark Energy Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 18 Extra Credit Movie: Contact 8:00 pm 319 KRG | 3 | 4
Lecture: Extraterrestrial Life and Intelligence Lecture Visuals Reading: Chap 19 All Extra Credit Due by 3:00 pm Finals | Week 7
| 8
| 9
| Comprehensive 3:00pm-5:00pm; 319 KRG
| 10 | 11 |