PHYS 137Descriptive Astronomy
- Faculty
- Science
- Last listed
- 1971–72
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1968–69 to 1971–72; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
This course is now offered under the Science course listings as Science 237* or 238*. See page 456 for details.
As printed in the 1971–72 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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Fall 2018
Physics-based MATH 137 to normal MATH 138 7 points, 7 comments
“Hi, 1A Math faculty student here, just wondering if anyone else has done this before. I'm currently in Marek Stastna's calc section for physics/mathphys students or anyone taking physics as an …”
u/cabbagemeister: “Having phys137/138P will be fine for any of the upper year STAT and MATH courses. I found math237 the easiest out of all of them, stat230 barely required any calculus, and past that you should be fine. …”
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1968–69 to 1971–72, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1971–72 1 calendar
This course is now offered under the Science course listings as Science 237* or 238*. See page 456 for details.
1970–71 1 calendar
A survey course in descriptive astronomy intended for non-science students. The solar system, stars, the galaxy, galaxies and the universe. No prerequisite. 3 lectures, for one term only.
1969–70 1 calendar
Another title: Highlights of Astronomy A survey course in descriptive astronomy intended for non-science stu-, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
dents.
1968–69 1 calendar
Titled Highlights of Astronomy.
A survey course in descriptive astronomy intended for non-science students.
3 lectures per week for first term only.
No prerequisites.