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Introductory Astronomy Reading

Assignment

 

  Reading Assignments will be made from


            Discovering The Universe, Cumins and Kaufmann III
            W. H. Freeman and Company, 5th  Edition, 1999
            Introductory Astronomy Web Site,  Jon K. Wooley, 1999

 

Discovering The Universe                                                                 Web Voyages

Exam I over Section 1: From The Earth's Point of View

                Intro; Chapter 1                                                                         2,4.5,6

Exam II over Section 2: Telling Time and the Solar System

                Chapters 5 through 9                                                                 3,9,10

Exam II over Section 2: The Scientific Tradition

                Chapters 2                                                                                1,7.8

Exam IV over Section 4: (Light and the Telescope)  and 

                      Section5:  (Stars and Stellar Systems)

                Chapters 10 through 17                                                                10