Last week of class!

I'm back in Denver! Here's a nice astro-photo I took from the plane last week, somewhere over New York. Can you see two celestial objects?

Hint: look to the lower left of the Moon, about half the
distance to the tip of the wing. Anyone know what it is?

Can you believe the quarter's over already? Those ten weeks go by like lightning. This week we will have several term project presentations, practice with the Doppler shift equation on Tuesday, and review for the final exam on Thursday. Here's your chance to request specific topics to review.

Remember, the final will be cumulative, so you will need to study concepts from the first part of the class as well as more recent material. However, you all did so well on the midterm that I will focus primarily on the topics from the last half of the class. The final will also be slightly more challenging than the midterm, because you've shown you can handle it. Don't worry, this doesn't mean "impossibly hard"! There will be lots of straightforward questions. If you are comfortable with all the homework and in-class work we've done this quarter, you will do fine on the exam.

So what should we talk about in the review session?