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Mon 8/27 |
A Grand Tour of the Cosmos |
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Wed 8/29 |
Journey Through Space and Time |
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Fri 8/31 |
Light -- The Supreme Informant - NOTE: In the last two minutes of lecture, I said that a fundamental assumption of special relativity is that the speed of light cannot be exceeded. Actually, the fundamental assumption is that the measured speed of light is independent of the observer's speed or the source's speed (as written on CS-23, and as confirmed experimentally). This leads to the *conclusion* that the speed of light cannot be exceeded. Sorry about the error; I was rushing at the end, and simply said the wrong thing. - Alex |
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Mon 9/3 |
Labor Day |
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Wed 9/5 |
The Fingerprints of Atoms |
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Fri 9/7 |
Black-body Radiation |
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Mon 9/10 |
Tools of the Trade |
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Wed 9/12 |
Twinkling; Lunar Phases |
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Fri 9/14 |
Glorious Total Solar Eclipses |
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Mon 9/17 |
Celestial Phenomena |
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Wed 9/19 |
The Copernican Revolution |
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Fri 9/21 |
On the Shoulders of Giants (no video first 24 seconds) |
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Mon 9/24 |
The Earth: Our Home |
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Wed 9/26 |
The Moon, Mercury, and Venus |
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Fri 9/28 |
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn |
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Mon 10/1 |
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto |
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Wed 10/3 |
Comets and Solar-System Debris |
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Fri 10/5 |
Catastrophic Collisions |
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Mon 10/8 |
FIRST MIDTERM EXAM! (Through Pluto) |
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Wed 10/10 |
Extra-Solar Planets; Our Sun |
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Fri 10/12 |
Stars: Distant Suns |
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Mon 10/15 |
Social Stars: Binaries and Clusters |
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Wed 10/17 |
How Stars Shine: Cosmic Furnaces |
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Fri 10/19 |
Star Clusters: Reveal Stellar Ages |
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Mon 10/22 |
The Fate of the Sun |
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Wed 10/24 |
The Corpses of Massive Stars |
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Fri 10/26 |
Hearts of Darkness |
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Mon 10/29 |
The Quest for Black Holes |
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Wed 10/31 |
Hearts of Darkness and The Quest for Black Holes |
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Fri 11/2 |
Black Holes, Gamma Rey Bursts and The Milky Way Galaxy (cliips played during class have been removed) |
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Fri 11/2 |
Other Galaxies and The Dark Side of Matter |
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Mon 11/5 |
The Dark Side of Matter and The Expansion of the Universe |
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Wed 11/7 |
SECOND MIDTERM EXAM! (Through Other Galaxies) |
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Fri 11/9 |
Quasars - Cosmic Powerhouses |
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Mon 11/12 |
Veterans Day |
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Wed 11/14 |
In the Belly of the Beast |
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Fri 11/16 |
Cosmology and the Dark Night Sky |
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Mon 11/19 |
The Age of the Universe |
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Wed 11/21 |
The Geometry of the Universe |
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Fri 11/23 |
Thanksgiving |
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Mon 11/26 |
Einstein's Biggest Blunder? |
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Wed 11/28 |
Echoes of the Big Bang |
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Fri 11/30 |
The Contents of the Universe |
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Mon 12/3 |
In the Beginning |
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Wed 12/5 |
The Ultimate Free Lunch? |
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Fri 12/7 |
A Multiverse? The Search for Life |
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Mon 12/10 |
Interstellar Travel; Conclusion |