Astronomy and Earth Science

You thought I was kidding about this. Includes a picture of the world's largest radio telescope.

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We are going to watch this movie and then write a critique of the science included within it.

We're going to review for our "Stars and Beyond" test which will be after Spring Break.

Here's a review guide:

Optics, Telescopes and instrumentation
Behavior of lenses in telescopes
Splitting light into colors with spectra

Stars
Constellations- basic constellations of the night sky
Using a Planisphere
Asterisms and the appearance of the night sky over time
How we know what we know about stars
A. What we can see
Brightness
Color (Spectra)
Change over time

B. What we can tell from that
Distance
Composition
Temperature
Spectral Class
Potential lifetime
Size
Distance
Mass
Existence of planets

C. Star Lives
Birth- Dark Nebulas
and Emission Nebulas
Life- Main Sequence
perhaps in a Cluster
Death - Depends on mass
White Dwarf
Planetary Nebulas
Neutron Stars
Black Holes

D. Cosmology
Hubble expansion
The Big Bang theory
Time Travel (Special Relativity)
Warped Spacetime (General Relativity)
The shape of space

In terms of chapters:

Chapters 3, 4. Build your foundation III, Chapter 10,11, 12, 13, portions of 14 15, 16, 17.
Only parts of each of these chapters are covered.

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Today we'll watch a movie about the structure and evolution of the Universe.

Also, your models of black holes are due and will be graded (and photographed) in class.