Astro 1050 Summer 2013
Instructor: David Cook
Email: dcook12@uwyo.edu
Office: Physical Sciences 103b
Office Hours:
Monday 1pm-2pm
Thursday 3-4pm
or by appointment through email 
Syllabus
Updated Course Outline
Lectures:
1 Introduction 2 Celestial Sphere
3 Nightly Motions 4 Observing Project
5 Sun's Motion 6 Seasons
7 Moon's Motion & eclipses 8 The Planet's Motions
9 Kepler's Laws & Orbits 10 Newton's Laws of Motion & Gravity/Moon Tides
11 Solar System Overview/Formation 12 The Earth
13 The Moon & Impacts 14 The Planets
15 Moons/Asteroids/Comets 16 Nature of Light
17 Spectra & Atoms 18 Blackbody Radiation
19 The Sun 20 Stars/Distances/Magnitudes
21 Birth & Death of Stars 22 Stellar Remnant/HR Diagram
23 Exoplanets 24 Telescopes
25 Milky Way 26 Galaxies
27 Cosmology 
Observing Project:
Observation Sheet
Observation/Report Instructions
Observation Final Report (Due Friday June 28th)
Math Review:
Unit Conversion & Small Angle Forumula
Exopnents, Ratios, & Algebra
Graphs & Geometry