Astronomy
100 – SPING 2009
TEXT: Foundations of Astronomy, 8th ed. or later, Michael A. Seeds
Lecture Notes in Bookstore
Instructor: Kim
Gordon FO5-208
kgordon@socal.rr.com
http://www.csulb.edu/~gordon/100l.html
Office Hours: : Tu, Wed,
Th 6-7 PM
Department of Physics-Astronomy
Department Office: PH1-220, 985-4924
EXPLORING THE SKY
1 The Scale of the
Cosmos
2 The Sky
3 Cycles of the
Moon
4 The Origin of
Modem Astronomy
5 Newton, Einstein,
and Gravity
6 Light and
Telescopes
7 Starlight and
Atoms
EXAM 1
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
8 The Sun-Our Star
20 Planet Earth
21 The Moon and
Mercury: Airless Worlds
22 Venus and Mars
23 Jupiter and
Saturn
24 Uranus, Neptune,
and Pluto
25 Meteorites,
Asteroids, and Comets
19 The Origin of
the Solar System
EXAM 2
THE STARS
7 Starlight and
Atoms: Stellar spectra
9 The Family of
Stars
10 The Interstellar
Medium
11 The Formation of
Stars
12 Stellar
Evolution
13 The Deaths of
Stars
14 Neutron Stars
and Black Holes
EXAM 3
THE UNIVERSE
15 The Milky Way
Galaxy
16 Galaxies
17 Galaxies with
active Nuclei
18 Cosmology
LIFE
26 Life on
Other Worlds
FINAL EXAM