Welcome to PHYS 110 -- Astronomy


The astronomy course at GU is taught by Dr. A.J. Greer.


For the Summer I 2008 session the class meets TR 6:00 - 9:00 PM in Herak 317.

The text for the course is The Essential Cosmic Perspective, by Bennett, Donahue, Schneider, and Voit, 4th edition.   The ISBN for this book is: 0321507010.
 

The grading for the course is as follows:  100% three tests.

Below is a table consisting of homework sets for the chapters as well as test dates.  This is the same as what is on the syllabus.
 
 
Chapter Questions
1 1,4,6,7,16,18,22,28,29,33,41,43
2 5,6,8,9,11,12,14,17,20,21,23,26,28,29,30,35,43,44,45
3 5,6,8,10,18,23,24,26,27,29,40,41
4 1,4,14,18,19,25,27,29,34,35,43,44,45,46
5 1,2,7,9,10,11,18,19,20,29,30,33,35,48,49,5051,52
10
 2,5,6,11,13,14,40,43,45,46,49
6
 4,6,8,9,13,33,34,36,50
11
 4,7,8,9,10,13,19,22,26,27,29,36,37,40,44,45,47,48
12
 3,4,5,6,7,8,11,12,13,15,28,29,34,42,43,46
13
 1,4,5,6,8,10,11,13,15,17,24,28,30,33,43,44,45
14
 1,2,7,10,11,13,17,18,27,29,37,45,46
15
 3,9,10,12,14,18,44,46,47



The tests will be on the following dates:

Test #1: May 29
Test #2: June 10
Test #3: June 26


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AJG 5/19/08