The Johns Hopkins University

Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy

   

What's Happening on Jupiter!

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

Required textbook: Chaisson & McMillan Astronomy Today, fourth edition:
ISBN 0-13-091542-4     published by Prenhall (Prentice Hall)

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

2004 Course Syllabus:

Date

Chapters

Chapter Titles

July 7    Wednesday
1
2
Charting the Heavens
The Copernican Revolution
July 9    Friday
3
4
Radiation
Spectroscopy
July 12    Monday
5
6
Telescopes
The Solar System
July 14    Wednesday
7
8
Earth
The Moon and Mercury
July 16  Friday
9
10
Venus
Mars
July 19  Monday
11
12
Jupiter
Saturn
July 21  Wednesday
13
14
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
Solar System Debris    and    MIDTERM EXAMINATION
July 23  Friday
15
16
The Formation of the Solar System
The Sun
July 26  Monday
17
18
Measuring the Stars
The Interstellar Medium
July 28  Wednesday
19
20
Star Formation
Stellar Evolution
July 30  Friday
21
22
Stellar Explosions
Neutron Stars and Black Holes
August 2  Monday
23
24
The Milky Way Galaxy
Normal Galaxies
August 4  Wednesday
25
26
Active Galaxies and Quasars
Cosmology
August 6  Friday
27
28
The Early Universe
Life in the Universe    and    FINAL EXAMINATION

Have a Hopkins Summer