The Cosmos

You should be reading chapter 26 for this week and chapter 28 for the final week of class.

Note: No class on Friday, April 17.

Galaxies!

This week will continue our discussion of Spacetime, but for next week please do the following assignment:

Galaxy Classification (this is an online assignment)

Galaxy Classification Worksheet (print this and hand it in by Monday, March 30)

Reading Assignment: 605 - 629 and 635 - 664

Relativity Assignment Due Monday March 23

Welcome back everyone!  Our reading assignment for this week is on Black Holes:

pp. 577 to 603

and we'll be starting this week's assignment.

Stellar Evolution Homework Due Next Friday

Stellar Evolution Flowchart

Parallax

The parallax activity, due on Monday.

Reading for this week

We are starting our discussion of stars and stellar astrophysics:

Reading: pp. 433 - 466

New Schedule Online

The schedule has been updated as of Feb 24.  Check it out!

Class Schedule

Life on Mars?

Tomorrow we'll be exploring the Viking Experiments that attempted to search for life on Mars.  In addition, you should be reading through chapters 8 and 11.

Assignment 5 Due Feb 11

Assignment 5: Atmospheric Escape!

We'll talk about this in class today.

Reading assignment for the week of Feb 2

Hello all,

We are shooting ahead in the book a bit to talk about Solar System Formation.  Please glance through chapter 7 (which is a review of our solar system's properties) and then read:

pp. 185 - 204

in detail.  We'll be talk about those parts on Monday and Weds.

Assignment 4 - Due Weds Feb 4

We'll start this one in class on friday.

Assignment 04

Reading assignment this week is pp. 97-120

Assignment 3 (Due Monday, Jan 26) and Reading for this week

Pages 80 - 91 on gravity! 

Also, we will start Assignment 03 in class on Friday.

Assignment 2, Due 21 Jan 2009

Assignment 2, The Seasons:

Download Assignment

Download Worksheet

Assignment 1 - Due 12 Jan 2009 at 10:00 am

Scales of the Solar System:

Download

This assignment is due in class at 10:00 AM on January 12.

In the mean time, read Chapter 1 of your text.

Introductions for Spring 2009

Welcome to John Armstrong's Elementary Astronomy for spring term 2009.  We'll be using this space to post course updates and materials.  For starters, download:

Course Syllabus
Course Schedule

See you in class!