Course:ASTR303/Calendar

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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 2009

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9
First Meeting
Introduction
10 11
Stars (1.1)
12
13 14 HWK 1
Introducing galaxies
(1.2-1.3)
15 16
Galaxies in the Universe
(1.4-1.5)
17 18
The stars of Milky Way
(2.1-2.2)
19
20 21 HWK 2
The gas of the Milky Way
(2.3-2.4)
22 23
Stellar orbits
Spherical potentials (3.1)
24 25
Stellar orbits
Two-Body Relaxation (3.2)
26
27 28
Stellar orbits
Epicycles (3.3)
29 30 HWK 3
Stellar orbits
Phase space (3.4)

October 2009

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 Read this
Stellar orbits
Violent Relaxation
3
4 5
The Local Group
Our Satellites (4.1)
6 7 HWK 4
Local Group
Spirals & Dwarfs (4.2,4.4)
8 9
Local Group
Past and future (4.3,4.5)
10
11 12

Thanksgiving Day

13 14 HWK 5
Spirals
Light (5.1)
15 16
Spirals
Gas (5.2)
17
18 16
Spirals
Masses (5.3)
20 21 HWK 6
Spirals
Types and Arms (5.4-5.5.1)
22 23
Spirals
Structure (5.5.2)
Learn about the biggest spiral
24
25 26
Spirals
Bars and bulges (5.5.3-5.6)
27 28
Midterm 11-12
Up to and including (5.6)
29 30
Ellipticals
Light (6.1)
31

November 2009

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2
Ellipticals
Kinematics (6.2)
3 4 HWK 7
Ellipticals
Populations (6.3)
5 6 BH/DM (6.4) 7
8 9
Groups
(7.1)
10 11

Remembrance Day

12 13 HWK 8
Clusters
(7.2)
14
15 16 Read this
Galactic evolution
(7.3)
17 18
Gravitational lensing
(7.4)
19 20 HWK 9
Gravitational lensing
(7.4)
21
22 23
Large-scale structure
(8.1)
25 25
Measuring distant galaxies
(8.3.2, 8.4.2-5)
26 27 HWK 10
AGN (9.1)
28
29 30
Jets (9.2)

December 2009

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2
Intergalactic gas
(9.3)
3 4 HWK 11
The first galaxies
(9.4)
5
6 7 8
Start of exam period
9 10 11
Final 3:30-5
12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22
End of exam period
23 24

25
Christmas

26
27 28 29 30 31