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Instructor: Robert Friedfeld |
Office: 322I or 126 Miller
Science Bldg. |
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Email: rfriedfeld@sfasu.edu |
Office
Hours: MWF(10-11)AM, (2-3)PM TR( |
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Text: The Essential Cosmic
Perspective, 4th Edition |
Phone: 468-2197 |
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Authors:
Bennett, Donahue, Schneider, Voit |
Term: Spring
2008 |
Webpage: http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/friedfeld/ast105/INDEX.HTM
Course
Description: An
introductory study of planetary astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Lecture
and laboratory grades are computed into one grade, and the same grade is recorded
for both lecture and laboratory.
Co-requisite:
AST 105L
Course
Objectives: To
give each student an understanding and appreciation of the scope of our
universe through the methods of science.
Tentative Schedule (Subject
to change at the discretion of the instructor)
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Chapter |
Topic |
Dates |
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1 |
Our Place in the Universe |
Jan 15-Jan 17 |
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2 |
Discovering the Universe
for Yourself |
Jan 22- Jan 24 |
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3 |
The Science of Astronomy |
Jan 24- Jan 29 |
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4 |
Making Sense of the
Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity |
Jan 29- Jan 31 |
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5 |
Light: The Cosmic
Messenger |
Jan. 31- Feb 05 |
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Finish up |
Feb 07 |
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Exam #1 (1-5) |
Feb 12 |
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10 |
Our Star |
Feb 14 Feb 19 |
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11 |
Surveying the Stars |
Feb 19 Feb 21 |
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12 |
Star Stuff |
Feb 21- Feb 26 |
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13 |
The Bizarre Stellar
Graveyard |
Feb 26 Feb 28 |
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Finish up |
Mar 04 |
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Exam #2 (10-13) |
Mar 06 |
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Spring Break |
Mar 08 Mar16 |
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14 |
Our Galaxy |
Mar 18 |
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Easter
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Mar 20
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14 |
Our Galaxy-continued |
Mar 25 |
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15 |
A Universe of Galaxies |
Mar 27 Apr 01 |
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16 |
Dark Matter and the Fate
of the Universe |
Apr 01 Apr 03 |
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17 |
The Beginning of Time |
Apr 03 Apr 08 |
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Exam #3 (14-17) |
Apr 10 |
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6 |
Our Solar System |
Apr 15 Apr 17 |
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7 |
Earth and the Terrestrial
Worlds |
Apr 17 Apr 22 |
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8 |
Jovian Planet Systems |
Apr
22 Apr 24 |
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9 |
Remnants of Rock and Ice:
Asteroids, Comets and Pluto |
Apr
29 May 01 |
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Final Exam (Exam #4) (6-9) http://www.sfasu.edu/registrar/registration/final_exam_sched.asp |
May 08 |
Textbook
Link: http://www.masteringastronomy.com/
Clickers:
Determining the Lecture PRS
(clicker) grade:
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1-5 clicker questions may be asked during a lecture class.
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Some will be ungraded survey questions
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Half credit will be given for attempting to answer.
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The other half credit will be given if the answer is correct.
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Dont obsess over the clicker questions you answer incorrectly.
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If you are always present but answer all questions incorrectly (not
likely) you will still earn half credit.
Cheating via the clickers:
Do NOT let anyone else use
your clicker! Using more than one clicker (yours and your friends for example)
is considered cheating which carries a stiff penalty. See the SFA policies
regarding cheating and plagiarism (an excerpt is shown below). Giving someone
else your clicker is just like letting someone else take an exam for you. The
penalty for the owners of both clickers is a zero for their final clicker
grades, which may lower their final course grade by a whole letter grade.
Definition
of Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty includes both cheating and
plagiarism. Cheating includes but is not limited to (1) using or
attempting to use unauthorized materials to aid in achieving a better grade on
a component of a class; (2) the falsification or invention of any information,
including citations, on an assigned exercise; and/or (3) helping or attempting
to help another in an act of cheating or plagiarism. Plagiarism is
presenting the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own.
Examples of plagiarism are (1) submitting an assignment as if it were ones own
work when, in fact, it is at least partly the work of another; (2) submitting a
work that has been purchased or otherwise obtained from an Internet source or
another source; and (3) incorporating the words or ideas of an author into
ones paper without giving the author due credit.
Grading: Lecture
and Laboratory grades are computed into one grade and the same grade is recorded
for both lecture and
lab.
There will be four examinations including the final.
Each exam is worth 20% of the lecture avg. The final exam WILL NOT BE
comprehensive but will cover chapters 6-9. On-line work will count as 15% of
your LECTURE average and clicker quizzes 5%. The FINAL average is 75% of your Lecture
average plus 25% of your Lab average, as shown in the table below.
The
grading is summarized in following Table:
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Lecture
Average |
Final
Average |
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20%
Exam I 20
% Exam II 20%
Exam III 20%
Final Exam 5%
Clicker quiz average 15%
On line work average 100%
Lecture Average |
75%
Lecture Average 25% Lab Average 100%
Final Average |
Grading
Scale: Letter grades are assigned
according to the following scale for the Final Average
A (90-100) B (80 89.9) C (70-79.9) D (60-69.9) F
(0-59.9)
Testing Policy: There
will be four major exams, each covering a limited amount of lecture and text
material. The dates of these exams are listed in the schedule. Each student must provide a SCANTRON form number 882-E(S) in order
to take each exam. (The
final exam will NOT be
comprehensive.) No make-up exams will be
given unless there is a valid reason as deemed by the instructor.
Important
Dates:
Jan 14 Classes begin
Jan 21 MLKJr. Day - National holiday no classes
March 08 Spring Break begins.
March 17 Classes resume after Spring Break
March 19 Last day drop courses
May 08 Final Exam http://www.sfasu.edu/registrar/registration/final_exam_sched.asp
Special Accommodation
Statement:
Students with documented
disabilities or who need course accommodations should make an
appointment to see me as soon as
possible.