ASTR-1510-01 Quasars & Cosmology – One-Credit Section Tentative Schedule - Fall, 2009 Week Day Date Topic* 1 Mon 8/31 A Brief Tour of the Universe 2 Mon 9/7 NO CLASS (Labor Day) 3 Mon 9/14 The Milky Way Galaxy (1.1-7) 4 Mon 9/21 Normal Galaxies (2.1-3) 5 Mon 9/28 Extragalactic Distances (2.4-6) 6 Mon 10/5 Active Galaxies (3.1-7) 7 Tues 10/13 Groups of Galaxies (4.1-3) 8 Mon 10/19 Large-Scale Structure of the Universe (4.4-7) 9 Mon 10/26 Introduction to Cosmology (5.1-5.3.3) 10 Mon 11/2 Models of the Universe (5.3.4-5.5) 11 Mon 11/9 The Early Universe (6.1-3) 12 Mon 11/16 The Early Universe (6.4-7) 13 Mon 11/23 Which Universe is Ours? (7.1-4) 14 Mon 11/30 Cosmic Background Radiation (7.5-6) 15 Mon 12/7 Unsolved Problems (8.1-8) Back to course homepage. Last modified: 11/9/09 *Numbers in parentheses are related sections in Jones & Lambourne. They are recommended but not required reading.