Your Textbook website- do your homework HERE!!
If you have used your access code you can submit homework on the site below http://masteringastronomy.com/ The course name is....
MCCDASTROFALL2010DAVIES
You can also get an E-book for less! Ask how in class.
OBSERVATION NIGHT NEXT WEEK, SEPTEMBER 1ST.
We will (hopefully, depending on conditions) be observing Jupiter and the
Andromeda Galaxy
So be prepared to be outside for a while.
Traditional Homework -
If you like typing, little feedback, and don't want extra practice and
animations, maybe traditional homework is for you.
All homework needs to be
1) Typed, including the question
2) Have your name, date, and assignment number
3) Turned in ON TIME at the beginning of class- no late submissions- ever.
Chapter
Questions
Points
Due Date
Welcome
Read the essay 'The Cosmic Perspective"
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2007/04/02/the-cosmic-perspective
Write a 1 page, single spaced response paper that briefly addresses
these 3 questions--
1) What do you think is the point the author is trying to make?
2)what did you learn?
3) How can you benefit from Tyson's' 'Cosmic Perspective"?
20
Aug 25th
1 Our place in the universe
Essay Questions- 4,15,17,25
Multi Choice Questions- 25-34
37
Sept 1st
2 Discover the Universe yourself
Chapter 2- 1,9, 31-36
39
Sept 1st
No homework for Chapter 3 yet. Enjoy
Labor day!!
4 AND 5
Science Sphere Day
Chapter 7 Terrestrial Worlds
Chapter 8 JovianWorlds
Chapter 9 Wanderers- Comets, and Asteroids
CH 10 The Sun
CH 11 Surveying the Stars
CH 12 Star Stuff
CH 15 Galaxies and Cosmology
CH 16 - Dark matter, Dark Energy, and the
Fate of the Universe
CH 17 The beginning of Time
The Blue Marble
The Blue Marble is an incredibly detailed, true-color depiction of the Earth.
NASA is responsible for this dataset made from a compilation of satellite images
throughout 2001. Most of the information came from NASA's MODIS, the Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, which is attached to the Terra satellite
435 miles above Earth. The background image of the land and oceans was created
using data from June through September of 2001. This could not be done in a
single day or even a week because on any given day clouds are blocking a
significant portion of the surface. The cloud image is a composite of three days
worth of data. The first two days of data were collected in the visible
wavelength and the third day was needed to get a view of the clouds over the
poles using thermal infrared imagery.
Animations from Science on a Sphere
http://sos.noaa.gov/index.html
