Exploring the Universe   (95.121)

                                        Spring 2012

                              This is the webpage for Dr Laycock's section of the course.

 

Course Policy and Syllabus    
Schedule for Homework, Quizzes, & Textbook chapter coverage    
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updated

 4/17
 

 

 

Lecture # Week Subject
1-2-3 1 Cycles of the Sky
4-5-6 2 The Rise of Astronomy - Gravity and Motion
7-8-9 3 The Earth: Formation, Age, Interior, Atmosphere, Aurorae
Chapter 7 4 The Moon: Structure, Origin, Orbit, Tides
Chapter 8 5 The Solar System, and Exoplanets
Chapter 9 6 Mercury, Venus, Mars
Chapter 10 7 The Outer Planets
Chapter 11 8 Meteors and Comets
Chapter 4 9 Light and Atoms
Chapter 12 10

The Sun

Chapter 13 11 Measuring the Stars
Chapter 14 12 Stellar Evolution
Chapter 15 13 White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Chapter 16 14 The Milky Way Galaxy
Chapter 17 15 Galaxies
Chapter 18 16 Cosmology