Course:ASTR303/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 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 |
26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |