Lectures+120H

Lectures 120H
__First Third of Term__ The first third of the term's work will be devoted to learning the concepts/equations/background that is necessary to understand the science of astrophysics. While this may be repetitive for some of you, for others this information will be new (and, hopefully, exciting). This third culminates in using your new knowledge to understand the closest star, our Sun. Test #1 (Monday, March 21st, 1:40 - 3:05 P.M.) will be based on the material covered in the first third of the term.

__Second Third of Term__ The second third of the term will focus on learning about stars: characterizing them, as well as learning about their formation, evolution and demise. Black holes and special relativity will also be discussed. Test #2 (Monday, May 2nd, 1:40 - 3:05 P.M.) will be based on the material covered in the second third of the term, but as much of the material is based on an understand of the science (learned in the first third), this test is somewhat cumulative.

__Third Third of Term__ The third section of the term focuses on galaxies; including our own galaxy, nearby galaxies, galactic classification, active galactic nuclei and cosmology. The material covered in this third of the term will only be tested during the final exam (Monday, June 6th, 11:50 A.M. - 2:10 P.M.)