| Date |
Topic |
Reading
(Carroll & Ostlie) |
|---|
| 30 March |
A Brief History of the Spiral Nebulae |
Ch. 22 |
| 1 April |
Galaxy Classification: The Hubble Sequence
|
Ch. 23 § 1-3 |
| 6 April |
Global Properties |
Ch. 23 § 4; |
| 13 April |
Clusters of Galaxies; Dark Matter |
Ch 24; Ch. 25 § 3 |
| 20 April |
The Extragalactic Distance Scale |
Ch. 25 § 1-2 |
| 27 April |
Nonthermal Emission Processes: Synchrotron Radiation |
HES Notes |
| 11 May |
Compact Radio Sources, Quasars & AGN |
Ch. 26 |
| 18 May |
Cosmology: Geometry/Metrics |
Ch. 27 |
| 25 May |
Cosmological Models |
|
| 1 June |
The Big Bang: Cosmic Background Radiation, Nucleosynthesis |
Ch. 28 |
| 8 June |
Observational Cosmology |
Ch. 27 § 4 |
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