The first exam will be on Monday, October 21, during the class hour.

The 3rd exam will be on Monday, November 18, during the class hour. The list of topics for this exam is here.

This is the list of topics that will be covered. It is mostly based on the table of contents of the textbook, with some small additions and subtractions. The order of topics discussed in class and listed here, is slightly different from the table of contents in the book. Most of the topics listed here will require more than one hour of class. That means that this list does not coincide with hours of class.

1. Historical background - what can be seen in the sky and on Earth without any instruments:
- the Earth seems to be flat
- everything seems to move around us
- daily and annual motion of the Sun in the sky
- daily and annual motion of the Moon in the sky
- constellations
- apparent motion of the planets in the sky

2. Coordinate systems: Appendix 10

3. Celestial Mechanics and the Solar system: Chapter 1, All sections (1-5)

4. The Stellar Magnitude Scale: Chapter 11, Section 2

5. The Solar System in Perspective: Chapter 2, All sections (1-3)

6. The Dynamics of the Earth: Chapter 3, All sections (1-4)

7. The Earth-Moon System: Chapter 4, All sections (1-7)

8. The Terrestrial Planets: Mercury, Venus, and Mars: Chapter 5, Sections 1-3

9. The Jovian Planets and Pluto: Chapter 6, All sections (1-5)

10. Small Bodies and the Origin of the Solar System: Chapter 7, All Sections (1-6)

11. Telescopes and Detectors: Chapter 9, All Sections (1-5)

12. Electromagnetic Radiation and Matter: Chapter 8, Sections 1, 2, 3, 6

13. The Sun: A model Star: Chapter 10, All Sections (1-6)