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 schedule ASTR 5770 Cosmology Fall 2018: Timetable

Week Monday Wednesday Friday
1. Ch 10.1–7 Aug 27 Aug 29 Aug 31
2. Ch 10.8–19 Sep 3 Labor day Sep 5
Fiske: “Universe”
Problem Set 1 due in class
Sep 7
3. Ch 1 Special Relativity Sep 10 Sep 12
Problem Set 2 due in class
Sep 14
4. Ch 2.1–2
metric.nb 		Sep 17 Sep 19
Problem Set 3 due in class
Sep 21
5. Ch 2.3–27, Ch 4.1–8 Sep 24 Sep 26
Problem Set 4 due in class
Sep 28
6. Ch 10.21–24 Oct 1 Oct 3
Problem Set 5 due in class
Oct 5
Family weekend
7. Ch 10.25
Statistical mechanics notes
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis 		Oct 8 Oct 10
Problem Set 6 due in class
Oct 12
8. Ch 11
tetrad.nb 		Oct 15 Oct 17
Problem Set 7 due in class
Oct 19
9. Ch 28 Oct 22 Oct 24 Oct 26
10. Ch 26, 28, 29 Oct 29 Oct 31
Problem Set 8 due in class
Nov 2
11. Ch 29, 30 Nov 5 Nov 7 Nov 9
12. Nov 12
Presentations 		Nov 14
Presentations 		Nov 16
13. Fall Break
14. Ch 31 Nov 26
Presentations 		Nov 28
Presentations 		Nov 30
15. Chs 32-34 Dec 3
FCQs open 		Dec 5
Problem Set 9 due in class
Dec 7
16. Last week of classes Dec 10
FCQs close at midnight 		Dec 12
Last class 		Dec 14
Reading day (no class)
17. Exam week Dec 17 Dec 19
Take-home final due at noon
Dec 21

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