Lecture slides are Powerpoint files, designed to cover about 25 minutes each as part of a classroom presentation. Slides may be updated anytime before the week they are scheduled.
| Week of | Topic | Text Chapters | Lecture Slides |
| 1/13/20 | 1. Space | 1,2,3
5,13 10,54 |
Elementary Astronomy , Size of Space |
| 1/20/20 | 2. Time | 6,7
8,9 |
The Day, The Year |
| 1/27/20 | 3. Light | 22,23,24
29,30,33 28,31,32 |
Light, Spectra |
| 2/3/20 | 4. Gravity | 11,12
14,15,16 26,27 |
Planetary Motion, Kepler's Laws |
| 2/10/20 | 5. Solar System | 34,35
40,41 |
Solar System, Forming Planets |
| 2/17/20 | 6. Earth | 37,38
39,19 |
Planet Earth, Atmosphere |
| 2/24/20 | 7. Planets | 42,44
45,46 25,36 |
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| 3/2/20 | 8. Planetesimals | 43,47
48 49,50 |
Asteroids, Moons and Rings |
| 3/16/20 | 9. The Sun | 51
52,53 |
Solar Surface, Solar Interior |
| 3/23/20 | 10. Life of Stars | 55,56
57,58,59 61,70 |
Magnitude, Temperature |
| 3/30/20 | 11. Death of Stars | 60,63,64
65,66,67 68,69 |
Giant Stars, Variable Stars |
| 4/6/20 | 12. Milky Way | 71,72
73,74 |
Milky Way, Galactic Structure |
| 4/13/20 | 13. Galaxies | 75,76
77,78 |
Galaxy Types, Colliding Galaxies |
| 4/20/20 | 14. Cosmology | 79,80,81
82,83,84 85,86 |
Dark Matter, Big Bang |