| Dates |
Lab Exercise |
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| Wed 11 Jan – Fri 13 Jan |
No Labs this week, but purchase lab manual at Supply Store & bring to next week’s lab, along with millimeter ruler & scientific calculator. Read Intro in Lab book. |
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| Mon 16 Jan – Fri 20 Jan |
MLK Holiday: No Labs this week |
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| Mon 23 Jan – Fri 27 Jan |
Lab 1: The Sky as the World Turns |
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| Mon 30 Jan – Fri 3 Feb |
Lab 2: Yearly Path of the Sun |
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| Mon 6 Feb – Fri 10 Feb |
Lab 3: Properties of Lenses & Telescopes |
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| Mon 13 Feb – Fri 17 Feb |
Lab 4: Angles in Astronomy - Parallax |
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| Mon 20 Feb – Fri 24 Feb |
Quiz 1 (on Labs 1-4) & Lab 5: Lunar Surface Features |
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| Mon 27 Feb – Fri 3 Mar |
Lab 6: Introduction to Spectra & The Solar Spectra |
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| Mon 6 Mar – Fri 10 Mar |
Lab 7: The Sun & Solar Activity |
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| Mon 13 Mar – Fri 17 Mar |
Lab 8: Magnitudes, Spectral Types & The H-R Diagram |
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| Mon 20 Mar – Fri 24 Mar |
SPRING BREAK |
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| Mon 27 Mar – Fri 31 Mar |
Quiz 2 (on Labs 5-8) & Lab 9: Distributions and Our Galaxy |
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| Mon 3 Apr – Fri 7 Apr |
Lab 10: The Milky Way |
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| Mon 10 Apr – Fri 14 Apr |
Lab 11: Galaxies & Clusters of Galaxies |
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| Mon 17 Apr – Fri 21 Apr |
Lab 13: Orbital Motion of Planets |
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| Mon 24 Apr – Fri 28 Apr |
Quiz 3 (on Labs 9-11, 13)
Lab 12: Galactic Red Shifts and Cosmology (Make-up Lab) |
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| Mon 1 May – Fri 5 May |
Last week of classes: NO LABS
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