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Finding the mass of the earth. Somebody find a very large bathroom scale! No, use Newton's Universal Gravitation Equation. |
Universal
gravitation and acceleration. Gather useful equations. Begin
Centripetal Solar System chart. CSSC (through Earth) |
Finish CCSC (through IO) |
Finish CCSC and prepare for quiz. |
CCSC Due Planetary motion quiz.
Looking for trends in planetary data. Why are they
the way they are? |
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| Make-up quiz and finish Solar System Trends | Solar System Trends Einstein and Special Relativity video |
Finish Einstein video Writing prompt: Thinking Like Einstein
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Writing prompt
due Einstein's relativity of time: the boxcar thought experiment. Is this weird or what!? Boxcar exploration help coming |
Presentations of boxcar exploration |
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| Let's recap (PPT). Then, what about The Twin Paradox. Who is older? Why length contraction is necessary! |
Twin Paradox problem due Discuss solutions to TPP. What about flying through the open doors? Another cool thought experiment!! |
What is the problem? (disect his argument, e-mail him to let him know where the fallacy is) | Review for Quiz | Twin Paradox Quiz |
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| Review for final |
Review for final Questions for the final will come from these documents: U1Exam U2Exam U3Exam U4Exam U5Exam U7Exam Quizzes: Kincurves U3Quiz History TwinPar Torque Freefall GWIFD Quiz1 |
Review for final |
Shortened classes, 6th hour final
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Final Exams! 2-hour 3-hour |
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Final Exams! 0-hour 1-hour |
Last day of Finals!! 4-hour 5-hour |