Instructor
Prof. Diana Dragomir
Email: dragomir@unm.edu
Office: PAIS 3226
Homework, lecture slides, announcements and information on projects will be posted on the UNM Learn course page.
| Date | Lecture Notes | Reading | HW Due |
| Week 1 01/18-01/21 |
Introduction; Angles and Angular Measurement |
Ch 1 | |
| Week 2 01/24-01/28 |
Positional Astronomy; Phases of the Moon and Eclipses |
Ch 2 and 3 | HW 1 (due 01/27) |
| Week 3 01/31-02/04 |
Galileo and Kepler; Newton |
Ch 4 | |
| Week 4 02/7-02/11 |
Orbits; Tides |
Ch 4 | HW 2 (due 02/10) |
| Week 5 02/14-02/18 |
Light - Blackbody Radiation; Light - Spectral Lines |
Ch 5 | HW 3 (due 02/17) |
| Week 6 02/21-02/25 |
Telescopes; Review |
Ch 6; Ch 1 - 6 | HW 4 (due 02/24) |
| Week 7 02/28-03/04 |
Test 1; Solar System Overview |
Ch 7 | |
| Week 8 03/07-03/11 |
Solar System Formation |
Ch 8 | HW 5 (due 03/8) |
| Week 9 03/14-03/18 |
Spring Break | ||
| Week 10 03/21-03/25 |
Solar System Formation; Earth Interior |
Ch 8; Ch 9 | HW 6 (due 03/22) |
| Week 11 03/28-04/01 |
Earth Atmosphere; Moon & Mercury |
Ch 10 - 11; Ch 11 - 12 | HW 7 (due 03/31) |
| Week 12 04/04-04/08 |
Venus & Mars; Jupiter & Saturn |
Ch 11 - 12; Ch 13; | HW 8 (due 04/07) |
| Week 13 04/11-04/15 |
Uranus & Neptune, Rings; Moons & Pluto |
Ch 14; Ch 15 | HW 9 (due 04/14) |
| Week 14 04/18-04/22 |
Asteroids, comets and meteorites; Exoplanets |
Ch 15 |
HW 10 (due 04/21) |
| Week 15 04/25-04/29 |
Student Presentations; Review | Ch 7 - 15 | |
| Week 16 05/02-05/06 |
Life Beyond Earth; Test 2 | Ch 28 |