Physics 111 Spring 2024 Tentative Course Calendar
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Week 1 | 29
Lecture: Course Policy & Overview Video: An Invitation to Astronomy . . from an old friend | 30 | 31
Lecture: Some Important Concepts & Numbers 2/1
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| Lecture: The Sky from Earth |
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Week 2 | 5
Lecture: The Motion of the Moon & Eclipses 6
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| Lecture:Was Ptolemy Pstupid? 8
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| Lecture: Kepler's Laws Week 3
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| Lecture: Newton & Gravity 13
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| Video: Newton's Dark Secrets 15
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| Lecture: Light and Matter Week 4
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| Lecture: Telescopes - Light Buckets 20
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| Video: Ultimate Space Telescope Optional Video: Hubble's 25th Anniversary (from ~2015) 22
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| EXAM 1 In class; on paper (Chapters 1-5) Week 5
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| Video: Nova: To the Moon, Part 1 27
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| Lecture: The Solar System; An Overview 29
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| Lecture: The Earth |
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Week 6 | 4
Lecture: The Moon 5
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| Video: Nova: To the Moon, Part 2 7
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| Lecture: Venus and Mars Week 7
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| Video: Will humans ever go to Mars? NOVA The Rise of the Rockets 12
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| Lecture: The Jovian Planets 14
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| Lecture: Solar System Junk Week 8
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| Video: NOVA: The Day the Dinosaurs Died 19
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| Lecture: Extrasolar Planetary Systems 21
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| EXAM 2 In class; on paper (Chapters 6-10) Break Week 25
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Week 9 | 1
Lecture: The Sun: Structure 2
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| Video: NOVA: Einstein Revealed, Part 1 4
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| Lecture: The Sun: Energy Production Week 10
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| Eclipse Day! No Class Meeting Here's your extra credit assignment: Extra Credit Eclipse Assignment 9
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| Lecture The Nature of Stars 11
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| Lecture: Stellar Evolution 1: Birth and Middle Age Week 11
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| Lecture: Stellar Evolution 2: Death 16
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| Video: NOVA: Einstein Revealed Part 2 18
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| Lecture: Stellar Remnants: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, & Black Holes Week 12
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| Video: BBC: Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Black Hole? 23
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| EXAM 3 In class; on paper (Chapters 11-14) 25
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| Lecture: The Milky Way Galaxy Week 13
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| Lecture: Galaxies 30
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| Video: BBC: Stephen Hawking's Universe: Cosmology I also highly recommend the full length movie about Hawking, The Theory of Everything. Here's the Trailer. 5/2
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| Lecture Cosmology: The Origin of the Universe |
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Week 14 | 6
Video: BBC: Most of Our Universe is Missing | 7 | 8
Lecture The Fate of the Universe, Dark Matter, & Dark Energy 9
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| Lecture: Extraterrestrial Life and Intelligence Finals | Week A comprehensive final exam will be given at the time and place scheduled by the registrar 13
| Final Exam 14
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Important Notice About Lecture Visuals
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