5 Ways to Find a PlanetOn your worksheet, write the names and a brief description of each exoplanet detection method
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New Worlds AtlasUse the New Worlds Atlas to answer the questions in the worksheets about the exoplanets we've discovered so far
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Find That Planet!
Go to Find that Planet! to explore how to use a star map for finding planets, plot a planet path on a star map, and find out when a planet is visible.
Use the JPL HORIZONS Web-Interface to generate the ephemeris (the data table giving the calculate positions) of the planets.
Check out in-the-sky.org to make your own star charts!
Use the JPL HORIZONS Web-Interface to generate the ephemeris (the data table giving the calculate positions) of the planets.
Check out in-the-sky.org to make your own star charts!
Global View of the Seasons
What is Astronomy?
Read the article "What is Astronomy?" from Space.com and use it to fill out the Quick Write.
Resonance Lab
Copy the table/graph and answers the questions on a separate sheet of paper to be turned in at the end of the period.
Note: DO NOT use the frequencies described on the table in the handout. DO use the frequencies of the tuning forks you actually use. Collect data from 8 different tuning forks.
Note: DO NOT use the frequencies described on the table in the handout. DO use the frequencies of the tuning forks you actually use. Collect data from 8 different tuning forks.
Fission & Fusion Poster
Energy Project
Due Monday July, 8
Phet - Energy Skate Park
Bad News
1. Circuits: Parts in Your Kit
2. Circuits: Get to Know Your Tools
3. Circuits: Spaceship Interface
The Physics Classroom: Electrostatics
Phet - Gravity & Orbits
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
Click here to read through the text on Kepler's Laws on the Physics Classroom. Use the text to answer the questions in the PDF below. Answer the questions in your notebook. (For question #8, which has you do the example problems on the Physics Classroom website, only do the odds)