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Grading

Grading will be weighted as follows:

ItemDateWeight
Problem Sets 3/6
MidtermTh 11 Feb1/6
MidtermTh 11 Mar1/6
Final7.30-10.30pm Sat 8 May2/6

If you add that up, it comes to 7/6. To make it add to 100%, I will delete the worst 1/6 of your score. That means you can do badly on 2 problem sets, or on 1 of the midterms, or your final will count only half.

The plan is to have 6 problem sets, roughly one every two weeks. The problem sets will be mostly mathematical.

Summary Sessions

There will be summary sessions in class on Tue 9 Feb and Tue 9 March, the classes before the midterms.

Fiske Planetarium

CU's Fiske Planetarium has been reserved at the usual class time on the days in the following table. These shows are part of the course - exams may cover material presented in these shows.

ShowDate
Black Holes and RelativityTue 23 Feb
The Milky WayTh 18 Mar
GalaxiesTh 1 Apr
The Big BangTh 15 Apr

Content

  • Special Relativity (3 weeks)
  • General Relativity (3 weeks)
  • Cosmology (6 weeks) There are 15 weeks of class time (30 lectures), excluding the March Spring Break, so the above schedule leaves 3 weeks for summary sessions, exams, going over problem sets, etc.

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