This is the webpage for Dr Laycock's section of the course.
| Course Policy and Syllabus | ||
| Schedule for Homework, Quizzes, & Textbook chapter coverage | ||
| CHECK YOUR CLICKER DATA | 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 |