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ASTR
1010
Astronomy of the Solar System
Study Guide Mid-Term
The
student should be able to know and understand the following things:
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Scientific
Method
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Definition
and Purpose of Science
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Levels of
Information Gathering
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Characteristics of a Good Experiment
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Difference
between on Observation and an Experiment
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Definitions
of Hypothesis, Law and Theory
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Serendipity
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Historical
Astronomy
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Ptolomy's
Geocentric Model
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Draw the
full model including deferents, epicycles and the bar
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Be able
to draw and describe how the model produces retrograde motion
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Describe
how the model explains maximum elongation
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Copernicus'
Circular Heliocentric Model
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Kepler's
Elliptical
Heliocentric Model
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Brahe's
observational contributions
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Parallax
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Accuracy
of Measurement
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Motions
of the Planets
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Galileo's
observational contributions
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Moons of
Jupiter
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***Phases of Venus***
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Newton's
Laws of Motion
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Newton's
Universal Law of Gravity
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Why
the Moon orbits the Earth
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Naked
Eye Astronomy
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Why
the Earth has seasons (diagram and describe)
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Why
the Moon has phases (diagram and describe)
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Why there are eclipses
(diagram and describe)
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Celestial Coordinates Systems (List and Describe)
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Angular
Measurement
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Terrestrial
Coordinate System-Latitude and Longitude
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Apparent
Motions of the Heavens
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Daily, Monthly and Yearly
Motions
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Motions of the "fixed" stars,
the planets (retrograde motion), the Sun and the Moon
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Differences in the apparent
motions between winter and summer.
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Draw the celestial sphere
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Horizon View: CNP, Zenith,
Horizon, CE
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Space View: CNP, CSP, CE,
Ecliptic, Equinoxes, Solstices
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