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Week 9 (26th November 2009)

 

· Observing session – Jupiter and the Pleiades (M45)

 

· Lunar World Record image

 

· Re-cap Moving Worlds PPt – planetary orbits

 

· Models of the Universe and our understanding of the motion of the planets – PPt Ptolemy to Newton.

 

· Note - we went as far as Kepler’s First Law.

 

Useful web site

 

Lunar world record image

 

Next week

 

· Coursework discussion and past examples to review

 

 

 

Week 10 (3rd December 2009)

 

· Kepler’s 3 laws of planetary motion (PPt Ptolemy to Newton)

 

· Examples of the 3^rd law – P²  α R³

 

· Galileo’s observations and implications of his discoveries

 

· Newton and gravity – introduction

 

 

 

 

 

GCSE Astronomy — Lesson Summary Sheets—Year 2009/10—Bexley

 

Work in week

 

· Coursework

 

 

 

Week 11 (10th December 2009)

 

· Examples from past papers of Kepler’s laws and planetary orbits

 

· Newton’s Laws of Gravity

 

· Mercury to Mars PPt – Introduction to Solar System and Mercury

 

 

 

Week 12 (17th December 2009)

 

· Venus and Mars

 

· Work over break

 

· Coursework

 

· Read previous PPts

 

 

 

Week 13 (19th December 2009)

 

Visit to Royal Observatory Greenwich