ASTRONOMY 10

WANDERERS IN SPACE

COURSE SYLLABUS

(Fall Semester 1998)

Professor Kenneth R. Lang

Lecture Hours: Cabot Auditorium, Block 61+ and 72+

Monday, Wednesday, 1:05 to 2:20 p.m.

Office Hours: Robinson 354

Monday 2:45 to 4:00 p.m.

Textbooks: Wanderers in Space: Exploration and Discovery in the Solar System Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Available now in bookstore, about $30

Sun, Earth and Sky

Springer-Verlag, 1995

Available now in bookstore, about $40

Grading Arrangement: There will be a mid-term examination on Monday, October 21 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Cabot Auditorium, and a final examination for the six (6) block on Monday, December 21 from 03:00 p.m. to 05:00 p.m. in Cousens Gym.

The mid-term will cover the first half of the course, consisting of the book Wanderers in Space, and will count for half of the grade, and the final will only deal with the second half of the course, consisting of the book Sun, Earth and Sky, while counting for the other half of the grade.

Course Content: Each lecture will discuss one chapter in one of the two textboooks, as delineated in the Lecture Schedule. Questions on the examinations will come from material in the textbooks, including boxed items and figures with their legends, and supplemental material provided during lectures.

ASTRONOMY 10 LECTURE SCHEDULE (Fall Semester 1998)

Lecture Day Date Topic

FIRST HALF OF CLASS - WANDERERS IN SPACE, 269 pages.

Lecture 1 Weds. Sept. 09 Worlds in Motion

Lecture 2 Monday Sept. 14 The Moon : Step Stone to Planets

Lecture 3 Weds. Sept. 16 Mercury : A Battered World

Lecture 4 Monday Sept. 21 Venus : The Veiled Planet

Lecture 5 Weds. Sept. 23 The Restless Earth

Lecture 6 Monday Sept. 28 Mars : The Red Desert

Lecture 7 Weds. Sept. 30 Asteroids, Meteors & Meteorites

Lecture 8 Monday Oct. 5 Jupiter : A Giant Primitive World

Lecture 9 Weds. Oct. 7 Saturn : Lord of the Rings

Lecture 10 Tuesday Oct. 13 Monday’s Schedule: Frozen Worlds: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

Lecture 11 Weds. Oct. 14 Comets : Icy Wanderers

Review Monday Oct. 19 Review for Midterm

Lecture 13 Weds. Oct. 28 Energizing the Sun

Lecture 14 Monday Nov. 2 Ghostlike Neutrinos

Lecture 15 Weds. Nov. 4 Taking the Pulse of the Sun

Lecture 16 Monday Nov. 9 A Magnetic Star

Lecture 17 Weds. Nov. 11 Veteran’s Day, but Class Held, Unseen World, Perpetual Change

Lecture 18 Monday Nov. 16 The Violent Sun

Lecture 19 Monday Nov. 23 Energizing Space

Lecture 20 Monday Nov. 30 Transforming Life-Sustaining Atm.

Lecture 21 Weds. Dec. 2 Fire and Ice

Review Monday Dec. 7 Review for Final

Review Weds. Dec. 9 Review Questions, Last Class