Email: catyp@astro.indiana.edu

This course was taught during the Fall, 2008, semester. The course is taught in a large lecture hall, with an enrollment of typically more than 200 students. The lectures (in Powerpoint format) and homework/classwork assignments (in Word) are available below. Many of the assignments require the use of websites and web tools.

Sources for images used in the lectures are gratefully acknowledged.

Lectures

• Size and Scale
• Units
• The Sky
• More Sky
• Backyard Astronomy
• Orbital Motion
• Newton's Laws
• Determining Masses
• Solar System Exploration
• Spacecraft
• Understanding Images
• The Earth (I)
• The Earth (II)
• The Earth (III)
• Keeping Time
• The Moon (I)
• The Moon (II)
• The Moon (III)
• Solar System Survey
• Solar System Origins
• Other Solar Systems
• Venus and Mercury
• Mars
• Comparing Terrestrial Planets
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus and Neptune
• Rocks in Space
• The Sun (I)
• The Sun (II)
• Life in the Universe
• Searching for ET

Homework/Classwork Assignments

• The Moon
• Kepler's Laws I
• Kepler's Laws II
• Space Exploration
• Venus
• Impact Craters
• Terrestrial Planets
• Saturn's Moons
• The Sun
• Exoplanets