Course:ASTR300/Calendar
The calendar gives the topics covered in the course along with an approximate schedule of when we will discuss them. To prepare for each meeting, you should read the sections of your textbook indicated in parenthesis. Homework assignments are due on the dates indicated.
September 2017
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 6 First Meeting Introduction |
7 | 8 Stars photometry (1.1) |
9 | ||
| 10 | 11 Stars overview (1.1) |
12 | 13 Introducing galaxies (1.2-1.3) |
14 | 15 Galaxies in the Universe (1.4-1.5) |
16 |
| 17 | 18 The stars of Milky Way (2.1-2.2) |
19 | 20 HWK 1 The gas of the Milky Way (2.3-2.4) |
21 | 22 Stellar orbits Spherical potentials (3.1) |
23 |
| 24 | 25 Stellar orbits Two-Body Relaxation (3.2) |
26 | 27 HWK 2 Stellar orbits Epicycles (3.3) |
28 | 29 Phase space (3.4) |
30 |
October 2017
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 The Local Group Our Satellites (4.1) |
3 | 4 HWK 3 Local Group Spirals & Dwarfs (4.2,4.4) |
5 | 6 Local Group Past and future (4.3,4.5) |
7 |
| 8 | 9
Thanksgiving Day |
10 | 11 HWK 4 Spirals Light (5.1) |
12 | 13 Spirals Gas (5.2) |
14 |
| 15 | 16 Spirals Masses (5.3) |
17 | 18 HWK 5 Spirals Types and Arms (5.4-5.5.1) |
19 | 20 Spirals Structure (5.5.2) |
21 |
| 22 | 23 Spirals Bars and bulges (5.5.3-5.6) |
24 | 25 Midterm 11-12 Up to and including (5.6) |
26 | 27 Ellipticals Light (6.1) |
28 |
| 29 | 30 Ellipticals Kinematics (6.2) |
31 |
November 2017
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 HWK 6 Ellipticals Populations (6.3) |
2 | 3 BH/DM (6.4) | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 Groups (7.1) |
7 | 8 HWK 7 Clusters (7.2) |
9 | 10 Galactic evolution (7.3) |
11 Remembrance Day |
| 12 | 13 Statutory holiday in lieu of Remembrance Day. |
14 | 15 HWK 8 Gravitational lensing (7.4) |
16 | 17 Gravitational lensing (7.4) |
18 |
| 19 | 20 Large-scale structure (8.1) |
21 | 22 HWK 9 Measuring distant galaxies (8.3.2, 8.4.2-5) |
23 | 24 AGN (9.1) |
25 |
| 26 | 27 Jets (9.2) |
28 | 29 HWK 10 Intergalactic gas (9.3) |
30 |
December 2017
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 The first galaxies (9.4) |
2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 HWK 11 |
5 Start of exam period |
6 15:30 Final Exam | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 End of exam period |
21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 Christmas | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |