Intergalactic Planetary

Model 5a and 5b 

The modeling process: 

During our Intergalactic planetary unit we created 5 different models of the solar system. The first model was just a model of of of the planets and the sun in our solar system. Our second model we had to scale the planets to size, have the distances between the planets and have numerical representation of both. For model 3 we had to add vocabulary and labels and add as much detail as we could. For model 4 we had to find a phenomena (pattern), then find evidence about the phenomena or pattern and then we had to explain it.  And for pattern 5a we had to predict something about planet X  and in 5b we had to calculate the orbital period using T = 2d/v and calculate your weight on the planet using F = Gm1m2/r2.

Content:

Force of Universal Gravitation: every object is attracted to every other object directly proportionally to their masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them squared. 

F=Gm1m2/ d^2 is an equation that is used to calculate the force of gravity. G stands for gravitational constant 6.67 x 10^-11. m1 is the mass of your first object and m2 stands for the second mass and you plug them into the equation and the distance between them to find the force of gravity in between the two objects.

Orbit: The orbit of of something is the gravitational curved path of an object.

Orbital period: The orbital period is the time that an object takes to orbit. 

Orbital Velocity: Orbital velocity is the velocity an object is orbiting another.

Scientific Notation: Scientific notation is used to simplify a very large or very small number. It is expressed as a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10. We used scientific notation for many equations and varibles, such as mass of the planets because their mass is so large.

Reflection:

Overall I had a lot of fun doing this project and I thought it was very interesting learning about space. Some things that I think I did well was collaboration I think I did well because me and my partner got a long very well and worked together with any problem we had. I also think that conscientious learning was one of my strengths. Throughout most of the project we managed our time very well and we we almost always on task.

Some things that I think I could have worked on were communication because sometimes we would not communicate very well and sometimes we would get confused and we would both be doing something different because we didn't have good communication. For next time I think we could be even more productive if we were both always doing the same thing and have better communication. I think I also could have been a better critical thinker because some times it was difficult for me to think well when there were so many numbers next time I think I could be more organized.