Astro HW Prev & Ch1 DT © 2012
Preview Ch – Q’s 4 Review Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group (of galaxies), Virgo Supercluster, Universe
Preview Ch – Q’s 4 Review Duh… Gravity
Preview Ch – Q’s 4 Review Lots
Preview Ch – Q’s 4 Review 100,000 ly
Preview Ch – Q’s 4 Review 1.5x10 11 m 150,000,000,000m 93,000,000 miles
Preview Ch – Q’s 4 Review Distance light travels in a year 1x10 16 m 6,000,000,000,000,000 miles
Preview Ch – Q’s 4 Review Protons, Neutrons, Electrons
Preview Ch – Q’s 4 Review Electrostatic Force
Preview Ch – Q’s 4 Review An organized step-by-step process of getting an answer – Observation (See Something) – Hyppopotamoose (Take a guess why you saw it) – Experimentation (Test it) – Theory (Revise your Hypotenuse) – Conclusion (Yeah, you got it)
Preview Ch - Problems Did it!
Preview Ch - Problems
Sun is 108 times bigger. – Sun = 0.2 x 108 = 21.6 cm MWG is WOWZERS bigger... – MWG = 100,000 ly
Preview Ch - Problems Yeah, right… – Let’s try it with TP later…
Preview Ch - Problems OH, STOP IT!
Preview Ch - Problems
Preview Ch – Test Yourself
Ch 1 – Q’s 4 Review 1.Imaginary sphere (ball) surrounding the earth showing where the stars are. 2.A group of stars that are NOT RELATED that just happen to form a shape to an idiot. 3.Zodiac is the group of constellations located along the sun’s ecliptic (path) on the celestial sphere.
Ch 1 – Q’s 4 Review 4. Path of the sun on the celestial sphere. 5. DUH! Tilt of earth’s axis of rotation allowing for uneven distribution of light and heat from the sun.
Ch 1 – Q’s 4 Review 6. NY has summer. April in Paris? What? 7. Along the ecliptic.
Ch 1 – Q’s 4 Review days. 9.
Ch 1 – Q’s 4 Review 10. Duh! EVERYTHING rises in East and sinks in West! 11. Planets don’t “twinkle”
Ch 1 – Q’s 4 Review Aristotle: Not much. Got just about everything wrong. Aristarchus: Estimated relative sizes of earth, Moon, & Sun, and relative distances to Moon & Sun. Eratosthenes: Measured C of earth. Ptolemy: Geocentric view Copernicus: Heliocentric view Tycho: Provided data Kepler needed
Ch 1 – Q’s 4 Review Kepler: Made 3 Laws of Planetary Motion (More on them later…) Galileo: Proved Copernicus was write (Found moons orbiting Jupiter and saw phases of Venus) Newton: Tied all of Kepler’s Laws and Galileo’s observations together with math proofs.
Ch 1 – Q’s 4 Review 13. Angle made by looking at something. 14. Thirds. Duh!
Ch 1 – Problems
Yeah, right… Later…
Ch 1 – Problems
Ch 1 – Test YoSeff