Calendar for Winter Quarter, 2007

Note: New material is being added and updated each week. Dates are subject to change.

Week/Lecture

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1
The Basics

1/1
Holiday - No Class

1/2
Introductory lecture

1/3
Celestial mechanics and the Scientific method

Lab 1 Geologic materials

1/4
Celestial mechanics

1/5
Atoms, Light & Energy

Star Practice / Current Events

Scale of the Solar System

2/3
History & Building Blocks

1/8
Atoms, Light & Energy

Minerals

Lab 2 Minerals

1/9
Common Minerals & Rocks

1/10
Light

Lab 2 Minerals

1/11
SNOW DAY
Canceled

1/12
SNOW DAY
Canceled

1/15
Holiday - No Class

1/16
Light & telescopes

Melting Rocks

1/17
History of Astronomy

Igneous Rocks

Space Mission Exercise Due

1/18
Igneous Rocks & the Moon

History of Astronomy

1/19
Exam 1 (rescheduled)

Star Practice / Current Events

Video: "From Earth to the Moon"

4-5
Telling Time, Galaxies, Stars & Origins

1/22
Weathering & Impacts

History/Newton

Lab 3 Keplers Laws

1/23
Moon & Tides

Impacts and Sedimentary Rocks

1/24
Sedimentary Rocks

Relativity

Lab 4a Rocks

1/25
Relativity

Metamorphic Rocks

Project Proposals Due

1/26
Big Bang

Star Practice / Current Events

Lab 4b Rocks

Project Time

1/29
Big Bang

Telling Time

Lab 5 Time

1/30
Telling Time

Origin of the Solar System

1/31
Sun

Meteorites/Asteroids

Lab 5 Time

2/1
Meteorites/Asteroids

2/2
Star Practice / Current Events

Sun

Craters Exercise

Project Time

6-10
Planetary Geology

2/5
Planetary Interiors & Quakes

Sun & Nuclear Energy

Lab 6 Sun & Planets Buffet

2/6
Nuclear Issues

Planetary Interiors

Project Websites Due

2/7
Quakes

Stars

Lab 6 Sun & Planets Buffet

2/8
Exam 2

Micrometeorites

2/9
Plate Tectonics

Star Practice / Current Events

Project Time

Impact Ex Due

2/12
Plate Tectonics

Mercury

Stars

Lab 7 Sun & Planets Buffet II

2/13
Star

Mercury

Project Progress Report & Names Due

2/14
Mercury/Tectonics

Stellar Evolution

Lab 7 Sun & Planets Buffet II

2/15
Stellar Evolution

Venus & Volcanism

2/16
Star Practice / Current Events

"Venus Unveiled" video

Complete Lab & Project Time

2/19
Holiday - No Class

2/20
Venus/Volcanism

Stellar Evolution

2/21
Venus

Project Exercise (using laptops)

2/22
Quantum mechanics

Mars

2/23
Mars

Star Practice / Current Events

Project Time

2/26
Milky Way

Mars/Landslides

Lab 8 Maps

2/27
Mars/Deserts

Galaxies

Project Progress Report & Missions Due

2/28
Galaxies

Water on Mars

Lab 8 Maps

3/1
Exam 3

Star Practice / Current Events

3/2
No Class

3/5
Galaxies

Jovian System

Terrestrial Planetary Atmospheres

Lab 9 Planetary Surfaces

3/6
Jovian Planets

Jovian System

3/7
Saturn System

Rings

Lab 9 Planetary Surfaces

3/8
Comets

Outer Solar System

Project Progress Report & Spacecraft Due

3/9
Outer Solar System

Star Practice / Current Events

Project Time

11
Life & Beyond the Solar System

3/12
The Facts of Life

The End of the Universe

Project Time

3/13
Life Beyond the Earth

3/14
Life Beyond the Earth

Project Time

3/15
Project Presentations

3/16
Project Presentations

Final Project Due

12

3/19
Final Exam

3/21

3/22

3/24

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Thursday, February 15, 2007