ATTENTION: Don't forget to think of a topic for your paper!
 

Attention:
The final exam for the course is Thursday, May 6 from 3:30pm tp 6:30pm.
Papers are due April 12.  All calss presentations must be completed by May 3 - the last day of classes.

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"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations", Albert Einstein.

"Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It's not a
thing to be waited for - it is a thing to be achieved."
- William Jennings Bryan
 

ASTR 3210: INTERMEDIATE ASTRONOMY SOLAR SYSTEM
D. W. Rusch, Spring, 1999
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Text: The Cosmic Perspective (Cos)

Date            Subject                              Reading Assignment               Homework

Jan 11  Description of course                    Cos 29-45               Cos p45 nos. 2,3,4 (due Jan 15)

Jan 13  The Earth as a planet                     Cos 48-70               Cos p70 nos. 3,4,6 (due Jan 20)

Jan 15  The Earth as a planet                     Cos Ch. 6                 Cos p158 nos. 2,3,4,5a,6a,10,11a (due Jan 22)
                                                                                                An interesting  table of planetary data.
Jan 18  No class

Jan 20 The Earth as a planet                      Cos Ch 10                   Earth  data. Cos p300 nos. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9 (due Jan 25)

Jan 22  The Earth's atmosphere                  Cos Ch. 10

Jan 25  The Earth's atmosphere                  Cos Ch 13                   Cos p398 nos. 1,2,3,4,5 and   this one  (due Jan 29)

Jan 27 Structure of the Earth                      Cos Ch 13                  Dinosaur  extinction.

Jan 29 Topics in global change: ozone          Cos Ch 13

Feb 1 Topics in global change:   climate        Cos Ch 13           Homework due February 10.

Feb 3  Further topics in global change

Feb 5 El Nino  See the results of El Nino for a  warm event.

Feb 8  El Nino See the results of La Nina for a  cool event.

Feb 10  Ozone        IMAGE OF THE TIME DEPENDENCE OF THE OZONE  depression.

Feb 12  Last lectures on global change and ozone         IMAGE OF  PSCS.

Feb 15  The inner planets: Mercury                        Homework due Feb 19.

Feb 17 Mercury                             READING COS CH 9 : Homework page 268 nos 1-6 due Feb 22

Feb 19 Venus

Feb 22 Venus

Feb 24 Review for exam

Feb 26                                                                             EXAM

Mar 1 Volcano                                                            Dr. Schneider's class  notes.
                                                                                           Other geology  links.
Mar 3 Earth geology                                                           Class notes are from this  article.
                                                                                           See the effect of El Nino on  California.
Mar 5 Mars                                                                  If you want, read Percival Lowell's book on  Mars.
                                                                                      Home work due  March 17.
Mar 8 Mars                                                                      Continue to review Chs. 9 and 10 od COS.

Mar 10 Mars                                                                     The Road Less  travelled.

Mar 12 Mars

Mar 15                           Guest lecturer, Dr. St. Maurice on aurora.

Mar 17                                                     Class notes for today.

Mar 19                                                       No class.

Mar 29                                                                                       Mars atmosphere and  climate.
                                                                                                  And the moons of Mars.
Mar 31                                                                                       The Earth's  Moon.

Apr 2 Jupiter
  tutorial on   Coriolis Force,               Link1Link2
Apr 5                                                                                          Jupiter's  moons.

Apr 7                                                                                       Saturn

Apr 9                                                                                           Uranus and Neptune.

Apr 12                                                                                         Notes on the   Sun .

Apr 14                                                                                         Student presentations

Apr 16                                                                                           Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

Apr 19                                                                                          Student presentations

Apr 21                                                                                          Student presentations

Apr 23                                                                                           Student presentations

Apr 26                                                                                            exam

Apr 28                                                                                            Student presentations

Apr 30                                                                                             Student presentations/review

May 3                                                                                              Review

May 6                                                                                               Final exam: 3:30 - 6:30