Lecture : Tuesday & Thursday 2nd & 3rd Period - 207 Leigh Hall

Instructor: Prof. Elizabeth Lada

• Office: 220 Bryant Space Sciences Building
• Phone: 392-2052 EXT 214
• Email: lada@astro.ufl.edu
• Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30-11:30 am, or by appointment

Teaching Assistant: Leah Simon

         ·  Office: 309 Bryant Space Sciences Building
    · Phone: 392-2052 ext 253
     · Email: lsimon@astro.ufl.edu
     ·  Office Hours: Monday 3 pm - 4 pm noon; Thursday 11 am – 12 noon, or by appointment

Text: Astronomy A Physical Perspective by Marc Kutner

This course offers a broad overview of modern astrophysics. This course is the first of a two semester sequence consisting of AST3018 and AST3019. This sequence is intended for majors in a physical science or engineering who have completed the first semester (i.e. mechanics and optics) of a calculus based introductory physics course and are taking the second semester of a calculus based physics course (i.e. electricity & magnetism and thermodynamics).