PHYS 1401: Descriptive Astronomy

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Chapter 10.6: Extending the Cosmic Distance Scale
Chapter 10.7: Stellar Masses
Quiz 09: Lab 09

Chapter 11.1: The Interstellar Medium
UCA Planetarium Show
7:00PM, LSC 010

Lab 10: Spectroscopy
Lab meets in LSC 161

Full Moon!
4:23PM

Chapter 11.2: Star-Forming Regions
Chapter 11.3: Dark Dust Clouds

Chapter 11.4: Formation of Stars Like the Sun
Chapter 11.5: Stars of Other Masses
Quiz 10: Lab 10

Chapter 11.6: Star Clusters
DUE: November Planetarium Summary

Lab 11: Classifying Stellar Spectra
Lab meets in LSC 174

Solution to Quiz 11

Exam 04: Chapters 10, 11
Exam 04 Solution

Chapter 12.1: Leaving the Main Sequence
Chapter 12.2: Evolution of a Sun-Like Star

Meteor! Shower!
Leonids

Meteor! Shower!
Leonids

Chapter 12.3: The Death of a Low-Mass Star
Chapter 12.4: Evolution of Stars More Massive Than the Sun

Lab 12: The Ages of Stellar Clusters
Lab meets in LSC 174

Solution to Quiz 12

Chapter 12.5: Supernova Explosions
Chapter 12.6: Observing Stellar Evolution in Star Clusters
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New Moon!
11/22/14 6:33AM

Chapter 12.7: The Cycle of Stellar Evolution
Chapter 13.1: Neutron Stars

Thanksgiving Break!
No Class!

Thanksgiving Break!
No Lab!

Thanksgiving Break!
No Class!

Chapter 13.2: Pulsars
Chapter 13.3: Neutron Star Binaries
Last Day to Take NOVA Quiz

Last Day for Withdrawal WP/WF

New Moon!
6:22PM

Chapter 13.4: Gamma Ray Bursts
Chapter 13.5:Black Holes
UCA Planetarium Show
7:00PM, LSC 010

No Lab!

Study Day
DUE: December Planetarium Summary

Full Moon!
12/06/14 6:27AM

Exam 05: Chapters 12, 13
11:00AM−1:00PM