OFFICE HOURS
Thu Dec 12 14:30-15:30 . Professor : Hennings 300B
Fri Dec 13 09:00-10:30 . Professor : Hennings 300B
OR email the professor to arrange a time.
ALSO: Can email TAs: Justine jusdowski@phas.ubc.ca or Simone shagey@phas.ubc.ca
for an appointment.
NOTE: The format x.y means chapter X, section Y
# Date Lecture Topic Pages or Chapter.Section
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1 Sep 4 Course logistics, systems of units Sect 1.1 (to end of Basic Astronomical Definitions), 1.3(stop at start of 'Motion within the Milky Way Galaxy')
2 Sep 6 The local sky and celestial sphere Chpt 2 Intro and Sect 2.1 (skip Matehmatical Insight 2.1 and its examples)
3 Sep 9 The paths of stars; diurnal cycle Sect S1.2 until reaching 'How does the Sun move through the local sky?' (but SKIP: Equinoxes and Solstics, Celestial Coordinates of the Sun, box on SolarDays/Analemma, Math Insight S1.2)
4 Sep 11 Motion of Sun across the sky All of Section S1.2 (skipping only the box on SolarDays/Analemma and Math Insight S1.2), now reading to end of S1.2.
5 Sep 13 Seasons. Precession Section 2.2
6 Sep 16 Time-keeping and calendars Section 3.1, S1.1 (skip Math Insight S1.1)
7 Sep 18 Time zones. Scale and angular measure. S1.3. Also: Sect 2.1's Math Insight 2.1 + review parag "Angular Size and Distances).
8 Sep 20 Distance scale and lunar phases. Sect 2.3 (up to but NOT including eclipses). PLUS Special Topic box 'Eratosthenes...' in Sect 3.2.
9 Sep 23 More Lunar phases. Sect 2.3 AGAIN (up to but NOT including eclipses)
10 Sep 25 Lunar and solar eclipses remainder of Sect 2.3
11 Sep 27 The motion of the planets. 2.4, 3.2, and review Sec S1.1 paragraph on `Planetary Periods'
xx Sep 30 UBC closed. No class x x
12 Oct 2 Scientific enquiry 3.4, 3.5
13 Oct 4 Galileo to Newton 3.3
14 Oct 7 Newton's laws and orbits 4.1, 4.2
15 Oct 9 More on orbits 4.4 and START of 4.5 to the start of the first example in Math Insight 4.3 "Newton's Version of Kepler's Third Law"
16 Oct 11 Intro to Light and Intro to Telescopes 5.1,5.2,6.1,and (6.2 to start of, but not including, "What do Astronomers..."). Math Insight 6.1 and 6.2 included!
xx Oct 14 THANKSGIVING. No class. n/a
17 Oct 16 spectra 5.3, 5.4 but stop where Doppler effect starts (skip boxes on Polarized Sunglasses and Math Insights in both sections)
18 Oct 18 Doppler effect and more Telescopes rest of 5.4, rest of 6.2, 6.3 (Box on Owning a Telescope is optional)
Oct 21 MIDTERM EXAM, in Class covers up to and including Oct 11 reading content and lectures, and first three Tutorials.
19 Oct 23 Intro to our Solar System 7.1, 7.2
20 Oct 25 Planet formation 8.1, 8.2
21 Oct 28 Spacecraft exploration. Radioactive dating 1.2, 7.3, 8.3
22 Oct 30 Impacts Some of 9.2 (skip subections on Volcanism, Tectonics, Erosion; but do read "How do impact craters..." subsection, and then skip "Why do the terrestrial planets..." sub-section). ALSO Sec 12.5
23 Nov 1 Asteroids and meteorites 12.1, 12.2
24 Nov 4 Comets and the outer Solar System 12.3, 12.4
25 Nov 6 Terrestrial and jovian interiors. 9.1 (Include Math 9.1; skip final subsec on magnetic fields), 11.1 but only to end of subsection "Internal Heat"
26 Nov 18 Processes on Moon and Mercury Remainder of 9.2 (see Oct 30th) and 9.3
Nov 11 Mid-Term Reading Break. No class.
Nov 13 Mid-Term Reading Break. No class.
27 Nov 15 Planet definition 7.1,11.1,12.1,12.4 but all of these were already read!
28 Nov 18 Start Exoplanets (longer reading!) 13.1, 13.2 to end of `Planetary Density', including Math Insight boxes 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
29 Nov 20 More Exoplanets rest of 13.2, 13.3
30 Nov 22 Terrestrial worlds: Mars Venus Earth 9.4, 9.5, 9.6 (skipping the 'Building Continents' subsection)
31 Nov 25 Tides and Rings end of 4.5 (starting at "How does gravity cause tides?"), 11.3
32 Nov 27 Our Sun and intro to atmospheres Sec 14.1, in Sec 14.2 only sections 'The Solar Thermostat' and 'How does the energy ...out of the Sun'?, Section 10.1 to end of 'How Atmospheres Affect Planets'.
33 Nov 29 Atmospheric processes and Mars Rest of 10.1 (includes Math Insight 10.1), 10.2 starting at 'What Factors can cause long-term climate change?', Math Insight 10.2, Sec 10.4
34 Dec 2 Atmospheres of Venus and Earth 10.5, 10.6 (long!!)
35 Dec 4 Moons of the Solar System 11.2
36 Dec 6 Life in the Solar System Sec 24.1, but SKIP (inclusive) from "Carbon Isotope Evidence' to end of 'The Transition from Chemistry to Biology' (starting again
with 'Migration Through Space'). Skip both Special Topic boxes. Read 24.2, 24.3 to end of 'The Habitable Zone' and then the final subsec 'How could we detect life on exoplanets?'.
Dec 13 noon FINAL EXAMINATION 12:00-14:30 Buch B208
The readings are to be completed BEFORE the corresponding lecture;
you then must do the reading assignment posted on:
Justine Obidowski : jusdowski@phas.ubc.ca
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