Thursday, September 26th	General introduction to the course. The scale of the universe and our place in it. Reading (TCP, Ch. 1)
Tuesday, October 1st	Motion, force, & energy. Reading (TCP, Ch. 4)
Thursday, October 3rd	Gravity! Reading (TCP, Ch. 4)
Tuesday, October 8th	Light and Thermal Radiation. Reading (TCP, Ch. 5)
Thursday, October 10th	Matter and Energy Levels. Reading (TCP, Ch. 5)
Tuesday, October 15th	The Sun. Reading (TCP, Ch. 14)
Thursday, October 17th	Properties of stars. Reading (TCP, Ch. 15)
Tuesday, October 22nd	More Properties of Stars, Star Clusters. Reading (TCP, Ch. 15)
Thursday, October 24th	Midterm Exam in class
Tuesday, October 29th	Evolution of Low- and High-mass Stars. Reading (TCP, Ch. 17)
Thursday, October 31st	End states of stars. Reading (TCP, Ch. 18, S4)
Tuesday, November 5th	More End States of Stars, Supernova Explosions. Reading (TCP, Ch. 17, 18)
Thursday, November 7th	Pulsars, Black Holes Reading (TCP, Ch. 18)
Tuesday, November 12th	Special relativity Reading (TCP, Ch. S2)
Thursday, November 14th	General Relativity and Black Holes. Reading (TCP, Ch. S3)
Tuesday, November 19th	AGNs, QSOs, and Supermassive Black Holes. Reading (TCP, Ch. 20, 21)
Tuesday, November 21st	Gravity in our own Milky Way. Reading (TCP, Ch. 19)
Thursday, November 26th	The Galactic Center; Galaxies and the Distance Ladder. Reading (TCP, Ch. 19, 20)
Thursday, November 28th	Thanksgiving, no class
Tuesday, December 3rd	The Expansion of the Universe. Reading (TCP, Ch. 20, 22)
Thursday, December 5th	Dark Matter, Dark Energy, the Origin and Fate of the Universe. Reading (TCP, Ch. 22, 23)
Tuesday, December 10th	Final Exam