Stars and the Universe: Cosmic Evolution
Summer of 2004: second term
Meets: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
9:00 am - 11:30 am in Bloomberg 361
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Homework Assignments and Due Dates
email to Professor Richard C. Henry at henry@jhu.edu
email to the Teaching Assistant
TBD at tbd@pha.jhu.edu
and to the Observatory Staff Person
TBD at tbd@jhu.edu
Date
Chapters
Chapter Titles
July 7    Wednesday
2Charting the Heavens
The Copernican Revolution
July 9    Friday
4Radiation
Spectroscopy
July 12    Monday
6Telescopes
The Solar System
July 14    Wednesday
8Earth
The Moon and Mercury
July 16  Friday
10Venus
Mars
July 19  Monday
12Jupiter
Saturn
July 21  Wednesday
14Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
Solar System Debris    and    MIDTERM EXAMINATION
July 23  Friday
16The Formation of the Solar System
The Sun
July 26  Monday
18Measuring the Stars
The Interstellar Medium
July 28  Wednesday
20Star Formation
Stellar Evolution
July 30  Friday
22Stellar Explosions
Neutron Stars and Black Holes
August 2  Monday
24The Milky Way Galaxy
Normal Galaxies
August 4  Wednesday
26Active Galaxies and Quasars
Cosmology
August 6  Friday
28The Early Universe
Life in the Universe    and    FINAL EXAMINATION
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