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Syllabus

The detailed syllabus can be found here.

Tentative Schedule

Date	Lecture Notes	Reading	HW Due
Week 1 01/18-01/22	Introduction; Light Blackbody radiation; Spectral lines	Ch 1 and 5
Week 2 01/25-01/29	Matter; Spectral lines; Doppler shift The Sun	Ch 5 and 16	HW 1 (due 01/28)
Week 3 02/01-02/05	Stars I; Stars II	Ch 16 and 17	HW 2 (due 02/04)
Week 4 02/8-02/12	ISM; Star formation	Ch 17 and 18	HW 3 (due 02/11)
Week 5 02/15-02/19	Post main sequence evolution Low mass stars	Ch 19 and 20
Week 6 02/22-02/26	High mass stars Neutron stars	Ch 20 and 21	HW 4 (due 02/23)
Week 7 03/01-03/05	Relativity Black holes	Ch 21
Week 8 03/08-03/12	Midterm Exam (3/9)
Week 9 03/15-03/19	Spring Break
Week 10 03/22-03/26	Gamma Ray Bursts	Ch 21
Week 11 03/29-04/02	Milky Way; Galaxies	Ch 22 and 23
Week 12 04/05-04/09	Active galaxies; Quasars	Ch 24
Week 13 04/12-04/16	Clusters; Large Scale Structure	Ch 24
Week 14 04/19-04/23	Cosmology	Ch 25
Week 15 04/26-04/30	Cosmic Dawn; Early Universe	Ch 26
Week 16 05/03-05/07	End of the Universe	Ch 26

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