Calendar for Fall Term 2010

Date Lectures Readings and Videos Assignments

Week Quad I Begins

1
8/23 Course Organization and Introduction to the Four
Grading Class Views
Quick intro to the
heavens
Introduction to the Four
Views
8/24
8/25 Units, Powers of 10, and Univ. Ch 1 – A Journey
Conversion – Light Years, Through Time and Space
Parsecs, Astronomical Fund. Ch1 – A Modern
Units View of the Universe
Size and Age of the Video – Powers of 10
Universe
8/26
8/27 Navigating the stars, Fund. Ch2 –
what we see Understanding the Sky
Four Views – Ch 1
Creationism
Week
2
8/30 Astronomical Astronomical
measurements and measurements and
conversions conversions
8/31
9/1 Ancient Interpretations of Four Views – Ch 1
the Cosmos Responses to Creationism
9/2
9/3 Class - Keeping Time Identifying
Constellations and
Stars
Week
3
9/6 PLNU Holiday
9/7
9/8 Beginning of the Fund. Ch3 – Changes in
Scientific Revolution, Our Perspective
Copernicus, Kepler,
Galileo, and Newton
9/9
9/10 Beginnings of the Video – SHU program one
Scientific Revolution – Seeing is Believing
Week
4
9/13 EXAM ONE
9/14
9/15 Our Solar System – Four Views – Ch 2 Phases of the Moon
formation and evolution Independence
9/16
9/17 Our Solar System – Univ. Ch 2 – Nearby
terrestrial planets Worlds
Fund. Ch 4 – Origin of the
Solar System
Four Views – Ch 2
Responses to
Independence
Week
5
9/20 Earth our home, Un Fund. Ch 4 – Origin of Radiological Dating
geological history, the the Solar System iv. Ch 2
green house effect – Nearby Worlds
Fund. Ch 5 – Terrestrial
Worlds
9/21
9/22 Our Solar System Univ. Ch 3 – Realm of the
Giants
Fund. Ch 6 – The Outer
Solar System
9/23
9/24 Our Solar System Video on the voyager
missions and other
spacecraft
Week Spiritual Renewal Week
6
9/27 PLNU Holiday -
President’s Day
9/28
9/29 Our Solar System Univ. Ch 4 – Ice Worlds

9/30
10/1 Extraterrestrial Planets Func. Ch 7 – Planets
around other Stars
Week
7
10/4 EXAM TWO
10/5
10/6 Spectrometry and Demonstrations of Light Solar Spectrum
photometry Four Views – Ch 3 Qual.
Agree.
10/7
10/8 Stars Univ. Ch 5 – Cosmic
Furnaces
 Fund. Ch 8 – The Sun and
Other Stars
Four Views – Ch 3
Responses to Qual. Agree.
Week
8
10/11 Nucleogenesis -Matter Univ. Ch 5 – Cosmic
Furnaces
Fund. Ch 9 – Stellar Lives
10/12
10/13 Supernovae, neutron Func. Ch 10 – Bizarre
stars, and black holes Stellar Graveyard
10/14 Quad 1 Ends
10/15 Fall Break – no classes
Week Quad II Begins
9
10/18 Cosmology, Hubble, Univ. Ch 7 – Into the
Einstein, and LeMaittre, Abyss
Open and Closed Models Func. Ch 12 – Galaxy
Distances and Hubble’s
Law
10/19 Mid Semester Grades
10/20 EXAM THREE Mid Semester Grades
10/21
10/22 Cosmic Microwave Video – On Arno Penzias
Background and Robert Wilson and the
Cosmic Microwave
Background
Week
10
10/25 Early Inflation, Current Fund. Ch. 13 – The Early
Inflation, and Supernovae Universe
Four Views – Ch 4
Partnership
10/26
10/27 Special Relativity Last day to drop 16 week
classes
Four Views – Ch 4
Responses to Partnership
10/28
10/29 Special Relativity and Video – Einstein’s Life and
Space Travel Times
Week
11
11/1 General Relativity and Readings Hand Outs
the Expanding Universe
11/2
11/3 Dark Matter Fund. Ch 14 – Dark Matter
and Dark Energy
11/4
11/5
Week
12
11/8
11/9
11/10 Dark Matter Video – SHU program four
– On the Dark Side
11/11
11/12 Dark Energy and Inflation Future Directions and
Speculations
Week
13
11/15 EXAM FOUR
11/16
11/17 Unification of Particles
and Fields, String Theory
and Membranes,
Randomness and
structure in the universe,
Design and Evolution
11/18
11/19 Structure of time, Readings
beginning and end -
creation and apocalypse
Week
14
11/22 Structure of time, Video – SHU program 6 –
beginning and end - An Answer to Everything
creation and apocalypse

11/23
11/24 Thanksgiving
11/25 Thanksgiving
11/26 Thanksgiving
Week
15
11/29 Gravity Waves
11/30
12/1 student presentations
12/2
12/3 student presentations
Week
16
12/6 student presentations
12/7
12/8 student presentations
12/9
12/10 student presentations
Week Finals Week
17
12/13
12/14
12/15 Final Exam Wed. 10:30
– 12:30
12/16
12/17