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MIDTERM on Friday, .
Use new scantron number 8000.
Activities are due in class
on.
How do I study for this test?
1) Study Chapters 1,2,3,4 and 5. 2)
In each chapter study those sections that I have covered in my
lectures notes. They are available in Clone Notes . 3) Review
the materials covered in videos shown in class. 4) Review the
lecture note outlines on this website. 5) Try to answer all of
the review questions on this website. 6) Make sure you know how
to answer the homework questions at the end of each chapter. Click
on
Sample
practice exam with answer Midterm
cover sheet.
Midterm scores
FINAL EXAM on at 10:30 to 12:30 Final
cover sheett.
Midterm, activities
& final scores
Weekly Announcement
- Week 1:
- a) Don't miss any of the
lectures.
- b) Read chapters 1,2 and
3.
- c) Buy a cheap scientific
calculator.d) Go back to the front page and click on " Lecture
Outlines ", then click on the " Scientific Notation
", and then click on " Take a Quiz ".
- Week 2:
- a) Read chapters 1,2,3,4.
- b) Video shown on Fri is
related to my lectures. Please do not miss it.
- c) Ask your TA to help you
with the end of the chapter's problems.
- d) Come to my office hrs
if you need help.
- Week 3:
- a) Read chapters 1,2,3,4 and 5
- b) Videos shown on Fri are
related to history and eclipses. Please do not miss it.
- c) Ask your TA to help you
with the end of the chapter's problems.
- d) Come to my office hrs
if you need help.
- e) Class lecture notes are
in the Clone Notes.
- f) Prepare yourself for the
midterm exam on chapt 1,2,3,4,and 5. MC questions + Problems.
- g) Make sure to know how
to use your calculator.
- h) Problem example: The approximate
numbers of the Sun like stars in our MWG is 2 x 10^9. Assume
the mass of the each star to be 10^30 kg. What is the approximate
total mass of our MW Galaxy?
- i) Challenging problem: Let
us assume 70% of your body is water ( hydrogen and oxygen). How
many hydrogen atoms do you carry with you when you come to this
class. Where these atoms originally come from? This problem is
not going to be on your exam. But, ain't
you interested to know the answer?
- g) Get serious and email
me the celestial coordinate of the star "Sirius"?
- Week 4:
- a) Please click on "Activates"
to see the activities new due date and the activities report
format.
- b) Remaining lecture from
last week. ( get a copy of the lecture notes)
- c) Lectures are on Kepler's
and Newton's Law of Motions. Please get a copy.
- d) Friday's video is on the
phases of the Moon , Eclipses and Tides. Don't miss it.
- e) Come to my office hrs
if you need help on Kepler's Laws. Activity 12 has to do with
the Kepler's second and the third law.
- Week 5:
- a) Finish lecture on Newton's
laws.
- b) Talk about exam. Do not
miss class.
- c) Lecture on chapter 6.
- d) Midterm exam on Fri.
- Week 6:
- a) Finish lecture on chapter
6.
- b) Lecture on chapter 7.
- c) Your TA, Ed Ames is sick.
Delay on midterm's result. I'll do my best to get it to you ASP.
- d) See the midterm exam results.
- d) Fri video is on "A
tour of our solar system". Class canceled.
- Week 7:
- a) Finish lecture on chapter
7
- b) Start chapter 8 the Earth.
- c) Fri video is on the Earth.
- Week 8:
- a) Finish lecture on chapter
8.
- b) Start lecture on chapter
9.
- c) Fri video is on a "Tour
of the inner and the outer planets".
- Week 9:
- a) Monday is a holiday.
- b) Wed May 31: Finish lecture
on chapter 9 and video on Murcury and Venus
- c) Fri June 2 : Video is
on Mars and Jupiter.
- Week 10:
- a) Monday June 5: Video is
on Saturn and Meteors, Asteroids and Comets.
- b) Wed June 7: Video on Uranus,
Neptune and Pluto and "Asteroids and Comets Impact"
Part 1.
- c) Fri June 9: Final exam
review. Turn in your activities in class. Zero points if you
don't show up.
- Video on "Asteroids
and Comets Impact" Part 2.
- Week 11:
- Monday June 12 :Final
exam.Zero points for no show.
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