Taylor University College
Astronomy 105

Detailed Syllabus and Links to On-line Lectures

Week	Topics and Readings	On-line Lectures
1,2	Where are we? An exploration of just where we are in God's wonderful cosmos - Seeds, 8th edition Chps 1,2,3	Just Where is Here Anyway?- What's Up? Looking at the Sky Phases, Tides,Eclipses and Other Lunacies!
2	Historical Themes in Astronomy - : Chps 3,4,5	Make up Your Mind: Our Changing View of the Cosmos Failure of Nerve: Monk, Master and Mystic Eppur si Muove
3,4	The birth of modern science - Newton to Einstein. The science of light and atoms. Chp 5,6,7	Standing on the Great Divide: Galileo and Newton Truth is Sometimes Stranger Than We Can Imagine The Next Best Thing to Being There! Light - a Pretty Good Idea!
5,6	The sun as a star and the earth - sun connection. Aurora! Chp 7,8 Mid-term (October 19, 2005)	Mad Dogs and Englishmen She's Just Going Through a Phase What Ever You Do ...Don't Whistle!
7,8	Venturing into the cosmos - Chp 9, 10	Far-Out! Getting to Know the Neighbours The Cosmic Rosetta Stone Seeing Double!
8,9	Stellar formation and structure - the Science of Stars! Chp 10, 11	Where'd All These Stars Come From? A Star is Born The Bigger They Come - The Brighter They Shine
9,10	Stellar evolution - Chp12	Stellar Variability Living Beyond One's Means Faces in the Crowd - putting stellar evolutionary theory to the test
10,11	The end-game! - Chp 12,13,14	How Did Walt Whitman Know? The Big Crunch and Little Green Men Black Holes - Outa Sight!
December	Final Exam December 7, 2005 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.