Week 8 (Oct. 14 - 18)
Fall Break on Monday and Tuesday!
Read: Re-ordering the heavenly spheres (Chap. 13)
Read: Re-ordering the heavenly spheres (Chap. 13)
Quiz: None.
Homework exercises: Racetrack analogy (Ex. 13.1), Copernican worldview (Ex. 13.3). Due noon Saturday week 8.
Laboratory exercises: Fall break; no lab on Monday. Each group must demonstrate how to set up and polar align the telescope by the end of week 9. When you have done so, scan and submit a lab book page which describes the telescope and how you set it up, including a photograph. Due noon Monday week 10. Also; be sure to submit your weekly planetary observation by noon, Monday, week 9.
Re-ording the celestial spheres (1 video):
Celestial physics (no videos yet…):
Homework exercises: Racetrack analogy (Ex. 13.1), Copernican worldview (Ex. 13.3). Due noon Saturday week 8.
Laboratory exercises: Fall break; no lab on Monday. Each group must demonstrate how to set up and polar align the telescope by the end of week 9. When you have done so, scan and submit a lab book page which describes the telescope and how you set it up, including a photograph. Due noon Monday week 10. Also; be sure to submit your weekly planetary observation by noon, Monday, week 9.
Re-ording the celestial spheres (1 video):
Celestial physics (no videos yet…):