Nov. 20 - Copernican Revolution

Post date: Nov 20, 2013 1:18:58 AM

Keyword

  • Heliocentric

Warm-up

  • Make an ellipse with the focus points, semimajor axis, and semiminor axis labeled. (SS pgs. 54, 63-64)

Objectives

  • Describe how Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Isaac Newton added to the Heliocentric model of the solar system.

  • Relate Kepler's 3 laws to the orbits of objects in the solar system.

Due

  • Make your own word/Group root flower 11/18

  • Space Science U2 L1 - Historical models of the solar system 11/20

  • Space Science U2 L2 - Gravity and the Solar System 11/22