Astronomy 1010 Fall 2007
Welcome to the web pages for Deepak Raghavan's ASTR 1010 class. This is your place to access the Syllabus, Class Materials, Homework, and Past Exams.
Labs
Labs begin the second week, please remember to attend the lab section for which you are registered. The lab website contains information pertaining to most of the labs, as well as lab instructor e-mails and contact information.
Class Materials
Class materials are given here in PDF format.
Class 1: Course Info & Our Place in the Universe
Class 2: Size, Scale, & Age of the Universe
Class 3: Mostly wiped out due to false fire alarm!
Class 4: The Universe as Viewed from Earth
Class 5: Seasons & Lunar Phases
Class 6: Solar & Lunar Eclipses
Class 8: The Copernican Revolution
Class 9: Physical Laws & Tides
Class 10: Newton's Laws continued (see slides above)
Class 11: Friday Fun Activity - Clues from the Sky
Class 12: Light, EM Spectrum, and Matter
Class 16: Solar System Formation Clues & Theories
Class 17: Birth of the Solar System
Class 18: After Planet Formation
Class 29: Friday Fun with Asteroids
Class 35: Friday Fun - Build an Alien!
Class 37: Detecting Extrasolar Planets
Class 39: The Nature of Exoplanet Systems
Class 41: Friday Fun with the Drake Equation
Homework Assignments
Past Exams with Answers