¢ Assignment involving Stellarium: Exercise 1

Wednesday

¢ Movie next class: Gallileo's Battle for the heavens

¢ The scale of things

     Ø The unit of measure on one end and example

     Ø The unit of measurement on the other end: Light Year

     Ø Representative distances

     Ø Relative sizes of planets and stars: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1768855/the_size_of_all_planets_are_relative/

¢ Measuring distances

     Ø Triangulation

     Ø Doppler effect: http://science.discovery.com/videos/time-doppler-effect.html

     Ø Parallax described

     Ø Parallax video: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Movies/#parallax

¢ Finish Stellarium Assignment

Thursday

¢ Saving - carefully

¢ Status of Stellarium Assignment

¢ Introduction to the scientific method

¢ Model of Ptolemy: ptolemaic model http://www​.youtube.c​om/watch?v​=wGjlT3XHb​9A

¢ Spectroscopy

     Ø Short demo and video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tZ6plRHLMg

     Ø Will be a lab on this later

¢ Doppler Shift and Spectroscopy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx0SMevn-0c&feature=related

¢ Movie: Gallileo's Battle for the heavens

Friday

¢ On the shoulders of giants - our evolving understanding of the universe

¢ Short video of Ptolemy's model

     Carl Sagan, 10 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faqjmAoXpM4&feature=fvwrel

¢ Movie: Gallileo's Battle for the heavens - continued

¢ Review exercise for a text next class next week

Monday

¢ Schedule for the next 2 weeks

      StarLab Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday of next week

¢ Movie: Gallileo's Battle for the heavens - Starting with The Moons of Jupiter

Tuesday

¢ Status of Assignments Submitted

     Note: this is from last year - I will publish this year's status shortlyj - do the assignments or you get nothing out of the course 

¢ Review of topics from last class - review exercise on Thursday

¢ Movie: Gallileo's Battle for the heavens - Conclusion

¢ Movie on Isaac Newton Friday

¢ Obtaining information from space - difference between sound waves and electromagnetic waves

     Ø Faraday

     Ø Doppler

     Ø Radiation - Cosmic Information _ and the doppler shift

¢ Finish Exercise 1 - new exercise next class

Wednesday

¢ Starlab next week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

¢ Telescopes

¢ Video: 400 Years of the Telescope: 60 minutes

Thursday

¢ First Quiz

¢ Video:ideo: 400 Years of the Telescope: 60 minutes (conclusion)

¢ Video:  Very Large Array near Magdalena New Mexico

Friday

¢ Quiz Answers: 10 questions, grades from 6 out of 10 correct to 10 out of 10 correct

¢ Very Large Array

¢ Video: on Isaac Newton  week after next

¢ Next week we will meet here and then go to the StarLab downstairs

¢ Volunteer to summarize Greek Mythology from notebook

¢ Constellations: http://www.windows2universe.org/the_universe/Constellations/constnavi.html

¢ Some constellations from Greek mythology (these and many more described in your notebook)
     Ø Cancer: http://www.windows2universe.org/mythology/cancer.html
     Ø Orion: http://www.windows2universe.org/mythology/orion.html
     Ø Pegasus: http://www.windows2universe.org/mythology/pegasus.html
     Ø Ursa Major: http://www.windows2universe.org/the_universe/Constellations/circumpolar/ursa_major.html

¢ Stars and Constellations: Short Video -  http://www.5min.com/Video/Stars-and-Constellations-93889705

¢ Constellations for June 2010 Video: http://hubblesite.org/fun_.and._games/tonights_sky/

Monday

¢ Schedule for the week - see below

¢ Constellations

¢ Selected assignments for presentations - complete before going to lab - pick one - or one will be assigned (in Italics)

¢ StarLab: Greek Mythology

     Ø Visit Starlab today - try to identify the constellation you picked (perhaps you will decide to pick another)

     Ø Take your notebook with you (to assist in identifying the constellations

     Ø Return to room 212 and work on presentation

Tuesday

¢ The Solar System

     Ø Zone 1: Terrestrial Planets

     Ø Zone 2: Jovian Planets

     Ø Zone 3: Oort Cloud

           Location JPEG: http://connect.in.com/oort-cloud/images-fileoort-cloud-sedna-orbitjpg-wikimedia-commons-1-890655739718.html

           Video: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/tlc/30776-solar-empire-oort-cloud-video.htm

¢ Center of the galaxy: Sagitarius constellation

¢ Stars and planets to scale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS88G5WBcfQ

¢ Greek Mythology presentations - pick one - given Thursday - short PowerPoint

¢ StarLab: Solar System and the Galaxy

Wednesday

¢ Assignments for presentations

¢ Birth of the Solar System Video:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1AXbpYndGc: about 3 minutes

¢ Work on presentations - present Monday

Thursday

¢ The giants of astronomy

¢ The giants of physics

¢ Video: on Isaac Newton - to nervous breakdown portion

¢ Work on presentations for next week

Friday

¢ Video: on Isaac Newton  - remainder

¢ Work on presentations for Monday

Monday

¢ Tentative schedule of topics for remainder of course - See Below

¢ Stars and planets to scale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS88G5WBcfQ

     Ø Short repeat of some information on stars

     Ø Each student pick one for a presentation similar to the Greek Mythology assignment

¢ Greek Mythology - Constellations Presentations

Tuesday

¢ Stars presentations selections: Molly needs to select

¢ Greek Mythology - Constellations Presentations

¢ The source of our knowledge: manned and unmanned missions, observations, inferences

     Ø Jupiter: The planet: http://science.discovery.com/convergence/planets/video/jupiter.html

     Ø Jupiter's Moons: http://science.discovery.com/convergence/planets/video/jupitersmoonshtml

     Ø Rover Mission to Mars: Launch, arrival, descent, animations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UmRx4dEdRI

     Ø Cassini mission to Saturn: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/features/saturn/video/video.html

Wednesday

¢ Greek Mythology - Remainder of Constellations Presentations

¢ Letters to parents will mention completion of assignments

¢ Work on stars presentation

Thursday

¢ Quiz

¢ Videos: DVD 1

¢ Complete Stars PowerPoint - will present next Tuesday

Friday

¢ Discuss solution to quiz

¢ Videos: DVD 1

Monday

NO CLASS - fourth of July

Tuesday

¢ Review

     Ø Mars

     Ø Venus

¢ Video 1

     Ø The Sun

     Ø End of the World

Wednesday

¢ Video 1

     Ø The Sun

     Ø End of the World

Thursday

¢ Work on Stars presentation - give on Monday

Friday

¢ Finish Video 1: End of the World

¢ Work on Stars presentation - give on Monday

Monday

¢ Short Video: clip: Looking back in time: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4273249/space-telescope-captures-first-image-of-universe?playlist_id=86861: 3 minutes

¢ Finish Stars presentation preparation

Tuesday

¢ Return textbooks

¢ The expanding universe: Einstein, Hubble, Lemaitre

¢ Finish Stars presentation (first 5 minutes)

¢ Stars presentations

Wednesday

RETURN TEXTBOOKS 

¢ Video: The Elegant Universe

Thursday

RETURN TEXTBOOKS  

¢ Video: The Elegant Universe

Friday

RETURN TEXTBOOKS  

¢ Quiz for Klondike

¢ Video: The Elegant Universe

LAST CLASS OF THE SUMMER!