Welcome to Astronomy 115

This class meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 12:20- 1:10 in Glass Hall 108


Here you will find links to important information for the class.

The course syllabus is available on Blackboard, as is our free on-line textbook.
My Schedule in pdf format.
My Schedule in html format.

Grades will be posted on blackboard


Section 1. Planets and solar systems


Lecture notes.
Reading for Section 1. Sections to be read, or skimmed, from the textbook.
Homework 1 Due in class on Wednesday, Feb. 7
Homework 1 solutions
Homework 2 Due in class on Friday, Feb. 16
Homework 2 solutions
Sample Test for section 1.
Images for the sample test.
Solutions to the sample test.
Review for section 1.
Test 1 Version A solutions
Test 1 Version B solutions
Test 1 Version C solutions
Images for Test 1



Section 2. Stars


Lecture notes.
Reading for Section 2. Sections to be read, or skimmed, from the textbook.
Group Project 1 due in class on April 1
Groups for Project 1
Images of your projects
HW3 due in class on Monday, March 25.
HW3 solutions
Stars what I want you to know.
Stars what I want you to know in PDF format
Sample Test for stars.
Images for the sample test.
Solutions to the sample test.
Test 2 Version A solutions. (PDF only).
Test 2 Version B solutions. (PDF only).
Test 2 Version C solutions. (PDF only).



Section 3. Galaxies and Cosmology


Lecture notes.
Reading for Section 3. Sections to be read, or skimmed, from the textbook.
Group Project 2 due in class on April 26.
Groups for Project 2
HW4 due in class on Monday, April 22.
Review for section 3.
Sample test for section 3. PDF only
Images for sample test PDf only
Solutions to the sample test.


Math review

Find me: MikeReed at MissouriState.edu