May 2005

 

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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.

Want to check your answers?

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

 

Writing prompt due

Einstein's relativity of time: the boxcar thought experiment.  Is this weird or what!?

Boxcar exploration

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

TP Simulation

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)

Other interesting ideas, some easy, some complicated

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

 

Final Exams!

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3-hour

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  Final Exams!

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Last day of Finals!!

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