2nd Semester Assignments for 2014-15

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Tuesday, January 13
Chapter 10-Mars
10.1 Orbital Properties, 10.2 Physical Properties, 10.3 Long Distance Observations, 10.4 The Martian Surface
overview of NASA Mars Missions (NASA Mars mission)
HW p256 Review 1-3, 6-8; Self Test 1-5

Thursday, January 15
10.5 Water on Mars, 10.6 Martian Atmosphere, 10.7 Martian Internal Structure, 10.8 The Moons of Mars
video-The Universe:Mars
Hw p256 Review 4,5,9-20; Self Test 6-10
take and submit the online chapter 10 tests

Tuesday, January 20
Quiz-chapter 10
Chapter 11-Jupiter
11.1 Orbital and Physical Properties, 11.2 Atmosphere of Jupiter (including Discovery 11.1:A Cometary Impact)
Juno mission to Jupiter
HW p282 Review 1-3, 6-8; Self Test 1-5

Thursday, January 22
11.3 Internal Structure (including Discovery 11.2:Almost a Star)11.4 Jupiter's Magnetosphere
internet link-Jupiter's Radio Emissions
video-The Universe-Jupiter:The Giant Planet
HW p282 Review 9-11; Self Test 6,7

Monday, January 26
11.5 The Moons of Jupiter (Discovery 11.3:Jupiter's Many Moons); 11.6 Jupiter's Ring
video-Traveler's Guide to the Planets: Jupiter
HW p282 Review 4,5,12-20; Self Test 8-10
Take and Submit the on-line tests

Wednesday, January 28
Review
Test on chapter 11

Monday, February 2
Chapter 12-Saturn
12.1 Orbital and Physical Properties
12.2 Saturn's Atmosphere
HW p310 Review 1-6 ; Self Test 1-4; Problems 1,3

Wednesday, February 4
finish chapter 12
video-The Universe:Saturn-Lord of the Rings
HW p310 Review 7-20; Self Test 5-10
discussion about Enceladus

Friday, February 6
Chapter 13-Uranus and Neptune
video-The Universe: The Outer Planets
HW p330 Review 1-20; Self Test 1-10
take and submit the online tests for chapter 12

Tuesday, February 10
Chapter 14-Solar System Debris
Largest Asteroid Impact Crater
video-The Universe: The End of the Earth (just the portion about asteroids)
video-The Universe: Cosmic Collisions (just the part about asteroids)
www.diskdetective.org (look for dust around stars)
Bill Nye The Science Guy on deflecting asteroids
HW p358 Review 1-6; Self Test 1-4
take and submit the online tests for chapter 13

Thursday, February 12
review
test covering chapters 12 and 13

Tuesday, February 17
Comets
video-The Universe: Deadly Comets
HW p358 Review 7-13,19; Self Test 5-6

Thursday, February 19
Kuiper Belt Objects
video-The Universe: Cosmic Collisions (the first 5 questions about Kuiper Belt objects)
assignment-Meteor Crater Analysis-due Monday, Feb 23
HW p358 Review 14-18,20; Self Test 7-10

Monday, February 23
Lab-Impact Cratering-due Friday, February 27
click here for the lab: take-home cratering lab - as additional proof that you actually performed the lab, you must e-mail me at least one picture of yourself working on this lab
video-The Universe: Stopping Armageddon
review

Wednesday, February 25
due today: Meteor Crater Analysis
review
test on chapter 14

Friday, February 27
due today - Lab: Impact Cratering
start chapter 17-The Stars
17.1 Solar Neighborhood
-parallax
-nearest neighbors (Astronomy, February 2011, page 50)
-naming stars
17.2 Luminosity and Apparent Brightness
(More Precisely 17-1: More on the Magnitude Scale - p425)
Lab-Parallax (on football field)
HW p442 Review 1-4, 7; Self Test 1-5; Problems 5,7,8

Tuesday, March 3
worksheets:
1. apparent magnitude
2. luminosity and parallax

Thursday, March 5
17.3 Stellar Temperature-color and blackbody curve-stellar spectra and spectral classification
17.4 Stellar Size (stellar size video from YouTube)
NML Cygni is currently the largest known star
17.5 HR Diagrams-Lecture Tutorial: HR Diagram (p109-110)
HW p442 Review 5, 6, 8-16; Self Test 6-9; Problems 3,4
HW worksheet "Stellar Temperature/Size/H-R Diagram"

Monday, March 9
17.6 Extending the Cosmic Distance Scale
17.7 Stellar Masses
17.8 Mass and Other Properties
link: Measuring Stellar Ages from Rotation Rates
worksheet-"Putting it all together"
HW p442 Review 17-20; Self Test 10; Problems 10

Wednesday, March 11
chapter 19-Star Formation
video-The Universe: Nebulas
HW p488 Review 1-20; Self Test 1-10; Problems 4,6,9,10
new evidence supporting Inflationary Model of Big Bang

Friday, March 13
Happy Vernal Equinox!
start chapter 20-Stellar Evolution
20.1 Leaving the Main Sequence
20.2 Evolution of a Sun-like Star
20.3 The Death of a Low-Mass Star
video-The Universe: Life and Death of a Star
HW p514 Review 1-9, 13-17; Self Test 7,10; Problems 3,4

Tuesday, March 17
20.4 Evolution of Stars More Massive than the Sun
20.5 Observing Stellar Evolution in Star Clusters
20.6 Stellar Evolution in Binary Systems
video-The Universe: The Search for Cosmic Clusters
HW p514 Review 10-12, 18-20; Self Test 1-6,8,9
HW p514 Problems 9,10

Wednesday, March 18
Science Expo - periods 1-7

Friday, March 20
Chapter 21-Stellar Explosions
21.1 Life and Death for White Dwarfs
21.2 The End of a High-Mass Star
video-The Universe: Pulsars and Quasars (just Pulsar portion for now)
HW summarize "Discovery 21-1"
Solar Eclipse could disrupt Europe's power supply

Tuesday, March 24
test covering chapters 17, 19, and 20

Thursday, March 26
21.3 Supernovae
21.4 Formation of the Elements
21.5 Cycle of Stellar Evolution
Gamma Ray Bursts explained
video-The Universe: Supernovas
HW p536 Review 1-20; Self Test 1-10, Problems 7

Tuesday, April 14
Chapter 22-Neutron Stars and Black Holes
a neutron star observed to have a slowing rotation rate
video-The Universe: Cosmic Holes
Superfluid in Neutron Star Cores
HW p568 Review 1-20; Self Test 1-10

Thursday, April 16
video-Einstein (from The History Channel)
take and submit the online tests for chapters 21-22
HW p569 Problems 1,3,4,7,8,10

Monday, April 20
video-Monster Black Holes
GRB/black hole

Wednesday, April 22
chapter 23-Milky Way Galaxy 
video-The Universe: The Milky Way 
Cepheid Variable mass 
Cepheid Variables not as standard as once thought 
HW p600 Review 1-20; Self Test 1-10

Friday, April 24
Senior Breakfast - most of class is gone today

Tuesday, April 28
chapter 24-Galaxies
huge halo found around the Andromeda galaxy
video-The Universe: Alien Galaxies
HW p632 Review 1-20; Self Test 1-10; Problems 2,3,7,10

Thursday, April 30
video-The Universe: Pulsars and Quasars (just Quasar portion now) 
Galaxy Zoo Classification project
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ 
search The Physics To Go site for info related to Quasar 3C273 
take and submit the online tests for chapters 23-24

Monday, May 4
chapter 25-Galaxies and Dark Matter
video-The Universe: Dark Matter
HW p658 Review 1-20; Self Test 1-10; Problems 1

Wednesday, May 6
chapter 26-Cosmology
video-The Universe: Beyond the Big Bang
HW p680 Review 1-20; Self Test 1-10
Has NASA created a warp drive?

Friday, May 8
chapter 27-The Early Universe
video-Elegant Universe/Creation of the Universe
HW p704 Review 1-20; Self Test 1-10
take and submit online tests for chapters 25-27

Tuesday, May 12
review - split class into groups and have them create Kahoot quizzes (https://getkahoot.com/)

Thursday, May 14
review - work on Kahoot quizzes

Monday, May 18
review - present Kahoot quizzes in class as review for the final exam

Wednesday, May 20
Final Exam