| Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
| AUGUST
|
|
|
| 24: A Sense of Scale
| 25
| 26:
Life on a Sphere
| 27
|
| NO AFTERNOON LAB
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28
| 29: The Spinning of the Sky
| 30
| 31:
Riding the Celestial Merry-Go-Round
| 1
PS#1 due 1:00pm
| 2: Science and Pseudoscience
| 3
|
| Lab #1: Measuring Distances Remotely
|
| SEPTEMBER
| 4
| 5: Explaining the Motion of the Spheres
| 6
| 7: Measuring the Scale of our Universe
| 8
PS#2 due 1:00pm
| 9:
The Heliocentric Alternative
Obs Lab #1 due 5:00 pm
| 10
|
| Lab #2: Redshift -- Olin 269
|
11
| 12: Tycho's Data and Kepler's Laws
| 13
| 14:
Galileo Moves the Earth
| 15
PS#3 due 1:00pm
| 16: Newton's Cannonball
| 17
|
| Lab #3: Phases and Eclipses
|
18
| 19: Newton Dethrones the Universe
| 20
| 21: First Hour Exam
| 22
| 23:
The Nature of Light
| 24
|
| NO AFTERNOON LAB
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25
| 26: Catching Light
| 27
| 28:
Making Light From Matter
| 29
PS#4 due 1:00pm
| 30:
The Earth as a Planet
| 1
|
| Lab #4: Optics and Telescopes -- Olin 269
|
|
OCTOBER
| 2
| 3: A Breath of Fresh Air
| 4
| 5:
Is it Getting Hot in Here, or What?
| 6
PS#5 due 1:00pm
| 7: Tides
| 8
|
| Lab #5: Blackbody and Spectral Line Emission -- Olin 269 |
9
|
10-11: Fall Break
|
12: Cold-Hearted Orb That Rules the Night
| 13
PS#6 due 1:00pm
| 14: To Go To Space
Obs Lab #2 due 5:00 pm
| 15
|
| NO AFTERNOON LAB |
16
| 17:
How to Make a Solar System with Stuff You Have Lying About the House
| 18
| 19: Second Hour Exam
| 20
| 21: Mercury
| 22
|
| NO AFTERNOON LAB
|
23
| 24: The Shrouded Inferno
| 25
| 26:
Craters and Catastrophes
| 27
PS#7 due 1:00pm
| 28: A Parched and Frozen Desert
| 29
|
| Lab #6: Craters -- Olin 269
|
30
| 31: The Bloated Giant
| 1
| 2: The Cold Galilean Satellites
| 3
PS#8 due 1:00pm
| 4: The Hot Galilean Satellites
| 5
|
| Lab #7: The Mass of Jupiter -- Olin 269
|
| NOVEMBER
| 6
| 7:
A Ringed World
| 8
| 9:
A Mission to Frozen Lands
| 10
PS#9 due 1:00pm
| 11: Denizens of the Dark
| 12
|
| Lab #8: Differentiation and Convection -- Olin 269
|
13
| 14:
Celestial Omens of Ill and Good Fortune
| 15
| 16: Third Hour Exam
| 17
| 18: Asteroids and Shooting Stars
| 19
|
| NO AFTERNOON LAB
|
20
| 21:
Meteors, Meteorites, and Impacts
| 22
| 23-26
Thanksgiving Recess
|
| No Afternoon Lab
|
27
| 28: The Search for Extrasolar Planets
| 29
| 30: Is
Anybody Out There?
| 1
PS#10 due 1:00pm
| 2: Life on Mars?
| 3
|
| Lab#9: Searching for Extrasolar
Planets -- Olin 269
|
| DECEMBER
| 4
| 5: Helios
| 6
Obs Lab #3 due 5:00 pm
| 7
|
| No Afternoon Lab
|
