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 7: Ancient Astronomy

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 13: Learning From Light

Class 14: EXAM 1

Class 15: Telescopes

Class 16: Solar System Formation Clues & Theories

Class 17: Birth of the Solar System

Class 18: After Planet Formation

Class 19: The Sun as a Star

Class 20: The Sun as our Star

Class 21: Mercury

Class 22: Venus

Class 23: Earth - Geology

Class 24: Earth - Atmosphere

Class 25: Moon

Class 26: EXAM 2

Class 27: Mars

Class 28: Jupiter

Class 29: Friday Fun with Asteroids

Class 30: The Galilean Moons

Class 31: Saturn

Class 32: Saturn's Moons

Class 33: Uranus & Neptune

Class 34: Pluto & the KBOs

Class 35: Friday Fun - Build an Alien!

Class 36: Comets

Class 37: Detecting Extrasolar Planets

Class 38: EXAM 3

Class 39: The Nature of Exoplanet Systems

Class 40: What is Life?

Class 41: Friday Fun with the Drake Equation

Class 42: Life on Earth

Class 43: Life Outside Earth?

Class 44: Final Review


Homework Assignments

Homework 1: Due 9/7/2007

Homework 2: Due 9/19/2007

Homework 3: Due 10/12/2007

Homework 4: Due 11/09/2007

Bonus Project: Due 12/07/2007


Past Exams with Answers

Exam 1

Exam 2

Exam 3