Note that the lecture material may vary, but the assignment dates are fixed. Visit this webpage to see updates to the topics.
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| Aug 23 | Astro-Disasters | Syllabus |
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| Aug 25 | Poor Pluto | |
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| Aug 27 | Meteors | |
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| Aug 30 | Asteroids/Comets | | HW1 (extension until Sept 7th)
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| Sept 1 | Star Formation: Molecular Clouds | |
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| Sept 3 | Star Formation: Rise of Rocks | |
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| Sept 6 | Labor Day | | HW2 (extension until Sept 7th)
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| Sept 8 | The Atmosphere and Meteors | |
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| Sept 10 | Dino Killer | |
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| Sept 13 | Computer Lab | | HW3
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| Sept 15 | Computer Lab | |
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| Sept 17 | Jupiter in Peril | |
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| Sept 20 | Killer Asteroids | | HW4
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| Sept 22 | Asteroid Mitigation | |
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| Sept 24 | Why does the Sun Shine? | |
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| Sept 27 | Why is the Sun Yellow? | | HW5
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| Sept 29 | Classifying Stars | |
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Oct 1 | Exam 1 | |
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| Oct 4 | Dying Sun | | Micro-Meteorite Lab
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| Oct 6 | Killer Sun | |
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| Oct 8 | Today's Sun | |
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| Oct 11 | Cornona Mass Ejections | | HW6
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| Oct 13 | Death of Massive Stars | |
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| Oct 15 | Killer Supernovae | |
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| Oct 18 | Computer Lab | | HW7
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| Oct 20 | Neutron stars and black holes | |
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| Oct 22 | GRBs | |
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| Oct 25 | Killer GRBs | | HW8
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| Oct 27 | Moving Close to c | |
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| Oct 29 | Gravity in General Relativity | | Night Obs
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| Nov 1 | Spaghettification | | HW9
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| Nov 3 | Compact Objects in the Solar System | |
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Nov 5 | Exam 2 | |
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| Nov 8 | The Milky Way | |
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| Nov 10 | The Milky Way | |
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| Nov 12 | Galaxies | |
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| Nov 15 | When Galaxies Collide | | HW10 & Asteroid Lab
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| Nov 17 | Expanding Universe | |
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| Nov 19 | Origin of Hydrogen | |
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| Nov 22 | Thanksgiving Break | |
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| Nov 24 | Thanksgiving Break | |
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| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving Break | |
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| Nov 29 | The Big Rip And the End of the Universe | | HW11
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| Dec 1 | Active Galaxies & Quasars | |
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| Dec 3 | ET Life | |
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| Dec 6 | Alien Threats | |
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Dec. 8 | Exam 3 | |
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