The Johns Hopkins University

Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy

   

What's Happening on Jupiter!

Stars and the Universe: Cosmic Evolution

171.118

Summer of 2009: second term

Meets: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
9:00 am - 11:30 am in Bloomberg 361

Required textbook: Chaisson & McMillan Astronomy Today, sixth edition:
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-240085-5     published by Pearson (Addison Wesley)
ISBN-10:         0-13-240085-5     published by Pearson (Addison Wesley)

Homework Assignments and Due Dates

email to Professor Richard C. Henry at henry-at-jhu.edu

Professor Henry's Office hours: most anytime (201 Bloomber), except before lectures!
(however, please go to Mr. Gupta if you want help on homework problems).

email to Teaching Assistant Arpit Gupta at arpit-at-pha.jhu.edu

Office: Bloomberg 245         Phone: 410-516-4869

Mr. Gupta's Office hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 11:30 to 12:30 (i.e. right after class)

email to the Observatory Staff Person,

Tim Dolch at tdolch1-at-pha.jhu.edu

2009 Course Syllabus:

Date

Chapters

Chapter Titles

June 29    Monday
1
2
Charting the Heavens
The Copernican Revolution
July 1    Wednesday
3
4
Radiation
Spectroscopy
July 3    Friday
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HOLIDAY
July 6    Monday
5
6
Telescopes
The Solar System
July 8    Wednesday
7
8
Earth
The Moon and Mercury
July 10  Friday
9
10
Venus
Mars
July 13  Monday
13
12
Jupiter
Saturn
July 15  Wednesday
15
14
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
Solar System Debris    and    MIDTERM EXAMINATION
July 17  Friday
17
16
The Formation of Planetary Systems
The Sun
July 20  Monday
17
18
Red Giants and White Dwarfs
The Interstellar Medium
July 22  Wednesday
19
20
Star Formation
Stellar Evolution
July 24  Friday
21
22
Stellar Explosions
Neutron Stars and Black Holes
July 27  Monday
23
24
Galaxies and Cosmology
Normal and Active Galaxies
July 29  Wednesday
25
26
Galaxies and Dark Matter
Cosmology
July 31  Friday
27
28
The Early Universe
Life in the Universe
and FINAL EXAMINATION

Have a Hopkins Summer