|
Date |
|
Day |
# |
Topic |
|
Aug |
24 |
R |
1 |
Introduction |
|
|
29 |
T |
2 |
Ancient Views |
|
|
31 |
R |
3 |
Greek Cosmology - Missed Class |
|
Sep |
4 |
M |
|
Labor Day |
|
|
5 |
T |
4 |
Greeks Continued |
|
|
7 |
R |
5 |
Copernican Revolution, Kepler |
|
|
12 |
T |
6 |
Newtonian Physics |
|
|
14 |
R |
7 |
Modern Physics |
|
|
19 |
T |
8 |
Relativity and Movies |
|
|
21 |
R |
9 |
Time Travel |
|
|
26 |
T |
10 |
gravitational Waves |
|
Oct |
28 |
R |
11 |
Great Milky Way Debate |
|
|
3 |
T |
12 |
Astrophotography |
|
|
5 |
R |
13 |
The Expanding Universe/Spectroscopy |
|
|
10 |
T |
14 |
Midterm |
|
|
12 |
R |
|
Break |
|
|
13 |
F |
|
Break |
|
|
17 |
T |
15 |
More Debate - Early 20th Century |
|
|
19 |
R |
16 |
The Cosmic Microwave Background |
|
|
24 |
T |
17 |
Exploring the Universe |
|
|
26 |
R |
18 |
|
|
|
31 |
T |
19 |
The Very Early Universe |
|
Nov |
2 |
R |
20 |
|
|
|
7 |
T |
21 |
Dark Matter |
|
|
9 |
R |
22 |
Dark Energy |
|
|
14 |
T |
23 |
Gravitational Waves and Black Holes Collide |
|
|
16 |
R |
24 |
Quantum Mechanics |
|
|
21 |
T |
25 |
Weird Theories of the Universe |
|
|
22 |
W |
|
Thanksgiving |
|
|
23 |
R |
|
Thanksgiving |
|
|
24 |
F |
|
Thanksgiving |
|
|
28 |
T |
26 |
|
|
|
30 |
R |
27 |
|
|
Dec |
5 |
T |
28 |
|
|
|
12 |
T |
|
Final -
11:30 AM |