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Useful web sites

 

· Eclipses  - Fred Espenak’s site

 

· Moon illusion APOD image

 

 

 

Week 8 (21st November 2009)

 

· Planetary orbits – Moving Worlds Powerpoint

 

· Inferior planets and superior planets and their orbital positions

 

· Introduction to models of the universe – Geocentric and Heliocentric (Ptolemy to Newton Powerpoint)

 

Web links

 

· Electric Orrery

 

· Retrograde motion animation

 

Work in the week

 

Study Powerpoints

 

Coursework

 

Bring along coursework to next lesson – I will bring examples of past coursework for you to study

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GCSE Astronomy — Lesson Summary Sheets—Year 2009/10—SL&W G&T

 

Week 9 (28th November 2009)

 

· PHP show – We are Astronomers

 

· Re-cap planetary motions – PPt Moving Worlds

 

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

 

· Kepler’s Laws of Planetary motion - introduction

 

· Note  - next week full discussion about the 3 laws and mathematical examples

 

 

Work in the week

· Coursework discussion and past examples to review

 

· Web link

We are Astronomers

 

 

 

Week 10 (5th 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

 

 

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