Objectives: Final Exam!
Period 6
Titan Astronomy_s1_2012
West Salem High School's course lesson plans, calendar of events, links, resources and do-at-home versions of some assignments
Mon., Jan. 28, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: Grading HR Diagram & Notes
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
HR Diagram Assignment
Announcements: Grading HR Diagram & Notes
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
HR Diagram Assignment
Fri., Jan. 25, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: Grading HR Diagram & Notes
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
HR Diagram Assignment
Announcements: Grading HR Diagram & Notes
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
HR Diagram Assignment
Thurs., Jan. 24, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: Grading HR Diagram & Notes
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
HR Diagram Assignment
Announcements: Grading HR Diagram & Notes
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
HR Diagram Assignment
Wed., Jan.23, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: None
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
HR Diagram Assignment
Announcements: None
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
HR Diagram Assignment
Tues., Jan. 22, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: All work and assignments must be graded today!!!
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
Announcements: All work and assignments must be graded today!!!
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
Fri., Jan. 18, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22----That's Tues!
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
Announcements: All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22----That's Tues!
Opening Data: None
Complete HR Diagram Notes
Thurs., Jan. 17, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: Finals are on Jan. 29, 30 & 31
Grading is on Feb. 1
All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22----Less than a week away!
Opening Data: Meteor Showers
Complete HR Diagram
Announcements: Finals are on Jan. 29, 30 & 31
Grading is on Feb. 1
All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22----Less than a week away!
Opening Data: Meteor Showers
Wed., Jan. 16, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: Finals are on Jan. 29, 30 & 31
Grading is on Feb. 1
All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22----Less than a week away!
Opening Data:
Star graphing lab:
Announcements: Finals are on Jan. 29, 30 & 31
Grading is on Feb. 1
All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22----Less than a week away!
Opening Data:
Star graphing lab:
Tues., Jan. 15, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: Finals are on Jan. 29, 30 & 31
Grading is on Feb. 1
All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22 One week from today!
Opening Data: Where's the center of the universe?
Star graphing lab:
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...
Announcements: Finals are on Jan. 29, 30 & 31
Grading is on Feb. 1
All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22 One week from today!
Opening Data: Where's the center of the universe?
Star graphing lab:
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...
Mon., Jan. 14, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: Finals are on Jan. 29, 30 & 31
Grading is on Feb. 1
All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22
Opening Data: What is the Universe expanding into?
Star graphing lab:
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...
Announcements: Finals are on Jan. 29, 30 & 31
Grading is on Feb. 1
All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22
Opening Data: What is the Universe expanding into?
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...
Fri., Jan. 11, 2013
Objectives: Discover the relationship between luminosity and star color.
Announcements: Finals are on Jan. 29, 30 & 31
Grading is on Feb. 1
All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22
Opening Data: Redshift
Star graphing lab:
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...
Announcements: Finals are on Jan. 29, 30 & 31
Grading is on Feb. 1
All work and assignments must be graded by Jan. 22
Opening Data: Redshift
Star graphing lab:
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...
Thurs., Jan. 10, 2013
Objectives: Discover flame color of metals
and use that to identify unkown metals.
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data: Views of the Milkyway galaxy in viarious wavelengths
The Doppler Effect
Audio Doppler Effect
The Expanding Universe
and use that to identify unkown metals.
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data: Views of the Milkyway galaxy in viarious wavelengths
The Doppler Effect
Audio Doppler Effect
The Expanding Universe
Wed., Jan. 9, 2013
Objectives: Discover flame color of metals
and use that to identify unkown metals.
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data: Stellar Evolution - Video (Universe: 0107-0111)
Stellar Evolution
Did you finish????Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
and use that to identify unkown metals.
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data: Stellar Evolution - Video (Universe: 0107-0111)
Stellar Evolution
Did you finish????Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
Tues., Dec. 18, 2012
Objectives: Discover flame color of metals
and use that to identify unkown metals.
Announcements: Happy Solstice!
Opening Data: wavelength to frequency
Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
and use that to identify unkown metals.
Announcements: Happy Solstice!
Opening Data: wavelength to frequency
Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
Mon., Dec. 17, 2012
Objectives: Discover flame color of metals
and use that to identify unkown metals.
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data: Energy of Light = h × f
Planck's Constant, h = 6.626 × 10-34 Js
Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
and use that to identify unkown metals.
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data: Energy of Light = h × f
Planck's Constant, h = 6.626 × 10-34 Js
Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
Fri., Dec. 14, 2012
Objectives: Determine the identity of unknown elements using the spectra created with your spectroscope
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data:
Einstein & Relativity
Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data:
Einstein & Relativity
Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
Thurs., Dec. 13, 2012
Objectives: Determine the identity of unknown elements using the spectra created with your spectroscope
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data: Speed of Light
light year
parsec
Einstein & Relativity
Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data: Speed of Light
light year
parsec
Einstein & Relativity
Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
Wed., Dec. 12, 2012
Objectives: Determine the identity of unknown elements using the spectra created with your spectroscope
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data: Speed of Light
c = 3.0 x 10^8 meters/second
light year = ly = 9.5 x 10^15 meters
parsec = pc = 3.25 ly = 3.1 x 10^16 meters
Einstein & Relativity
Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
Announcements: Show me your spectroscope for a grade and get your lab graded
Opening Data: Speed of Light
c = 3.0 x 10^8 meters/second
light year = ly = 9.5 x 10^15 meters
parsec = pc = 3.25 ly = 3.1 x 10^16 meters
Einstein & Relativity
Flame Test Lab
Spectra for the elements
Tues., Dec. 11, 2012
Objectives: Determine the identity of unknown elements using the spectra created with your spectroscope
Announcements: Finish today by EOP
Opening Data: None
In your journals:
Announcements: Finish today by EOP
Opening Data: None
In your journals:
- Mercury spectrum drawing
- Scale numbers where you saw each color
- Calibration curve printed out
- Drawing for each unknown gas spectrum
- Scale numbers (each color)
- Wavelengths of each color
- Element Identity
Mon., Dec. 10, 2012
Objectives: Determine the identity of unknown elements using the spectra created with your spectroscope
Announcements:
Opening Data:
Examine Mercury Spectrum Tube with your spectroscope and create a "calibration curve".
Examine the spectra of unknown gases. Attempt to
determine the identity of each sample.
Spectra for the elements
Build a spectroscope
Announcements:
Opening Data:
Examine Mercury Spectrum Tube with your spectroscope and create a "calibration curve".
Examine the spectra of unknown gases. Attempt to
determine the identity of each sample.
Spectra for the elements
Build a spectroscope
Fri., Dec. 7, 2012
Objectives: Describe how the visible spectrum fits into the rest of the EM spectrum including how to distinguish one color from the next.
Announcements:
Opening Data:
Examine Mercury Spectrum Tube with your spectroscope and create a "calibration curve".
Examine the spectra of unknown gases. Attempt to
determine the identity of each sample.
Diffraction gratings
Spectra for the elements
Build a spectroscope
Announcements:
Opening Data:
Examine Mercury Spectrum Tube with your spectroscope and create a "calibration curve".
Examine the spectra of unknown gases. Attempt to
determine the identity of each sample.
Diffraction gratings
Build a spectroscope
Thurs., Dec. 6, 2012
Objectives: Describe how the visible spectrum fits into the rest of the EM spectrum including how to distinguish one color from the next.
Announcements:
Opening Data: Diffraction gratings and Spectrum Tubes
Spectra for the elements
Build a spectroscope
Announcements:
Opening Data: Diffraction gratings and Spectrum Tubes
Build a spectroscope
Wed., Dec. 5, 2012
Objectives: Describe how the visible spectrum fits into the rest of the EM spectrum including how to distinguish one color from the next.
Announcements: Do you have your cereal box?
Opening Data: Diffraction gratings and Spectrum Tubes
Build a spectroscope
Announcements: Do you have your cereal box?
Opening Data: Diffraction gratings and Spectrum Tubes
Build a spectroscope
Tues., Dec. 4, 2012
Objectives: Describe how the visible spectrum fits into the rest of the EM spectrum including how to distinguish one color from the next.
Announcements: Do you have your cereal box?
Gotta have your box tomorrow as we start the
building process.
Let's get the answers...
Announcements: Do you have your cereal box?
Gotta have your box tomorrow as we start the
building process.
Let's get the answers...
- Describe the idea of the celestial sphere.
- What units is declination measured in?
- What are the units used to measure right ascension?
- Compare rt. ascension & declination to latitude and longitude on the earth.
- What is our latitude and longitude here in the classroom?
- What are lat. and long. measured in?
- Where on the Earth are latitude and longitude measured from (where's the "origin")?
- What's the 0,0 of rt. asc. & decl. called?
- Where is that located in the sky (which constellation)?
- When (on the calendar) is the Earth closest to the sun?
- What celestial event is closest to perihelion?
- Describe where the sun is during the vernal equinox.
- What day (typically) is the autumnal equinox?
- What happens during an equinox?
- What is the longest day of the year in the southern hemisphere?
Mon., Dec.3, 2012
Objectives: Describe how the visible spectrum fits into the rest of the EM spectrum including how to distinguish one color from the next.
Announcements: Diffraction & Rainbows
Do you have your cereal box?
Opening Data:
Remember those other questions?
(these should be in your notes...)
Announcements: Diffraction & Rainbows
Do you have your cereal box?
Opening Data:
Remember those other questions?
(these should be in your notes...)
- Describe the idea of the celestial sphere.
- What units is declination measured in?
- What are the units used to measure right ascension?
- Compare rt. ascension & declination to latitude and longitude on the earth.
- What is our latitude and longitude here in the classroom?
- What are lat. and long. measured in?
- Where on the Earth are latitude and longitude measured from (where's the "origin")?
- What's the 0,0 of rt. asc. & decl. called?
- Where is that located in the sky (which constellation)?
- When (on the calendar) is the Earth closest to the sun?
- What celestial event is closest to perihelion?
- Describe where the sun is during the vernal equinox.
- What day (typically) is the autumnal equinox?
- What happens during an equinox?
- What is the longest day of the year in the southern hemisphere?
Thurs., Nov. 29, 2012
Objectives: Describe how the visible spectrum fits into the rest of the EM spectrum including how to distinguish one color from the next.
Announcements: All late work is due now
Do you have your cereal box?
Opening Data: Electromagnetic Spectrum
Remember those other questions?
(these should be in your notes...)
Announcements: All late work is due now
Do you have your cereal box?
Opening Data: Electromagnetic Spectrum
Remember those other questions?
(these should be in your notes...)
- Describe the idea of the celestial sphere.
- What units is declination measured in?
- What are the units used to measure right ascension?
- Compare rt. ascension & declination to latitude and longitude on the earth.
- What is our latitude and longitude here in the classroom?
- What are lat. and long. measured in?
- Where on the Earth are latitude and longitude measured from (where's the "origin")?
- What's the 0,0 of rt. asc. & decl. called?
- Where is that located in the sky (which constellation)?
- When (on the calendar) is the Earth closest to the sun?
- What celestial event is closest to perihelion?
- Describe where the sun is during the vernal equinox.
- What day (typically) is the autumnal equinox?
- What happens during an equinox?
- What is the longest day of the year in the southern hemisphere?
Wed., Nov. 28, 2012
Objectives: Name all forms of "light" and
arrange them on the spectrum from the longest
wavelengths to the shortest. Then explain which has the most energy and how you know.
Announcements: All work by tomorrow
Bring a cereal box
Opening Data: Electromagnetic Spectrum
Visible spectrum & application to astronomy
The rest of the spectrum & how color works
Questions: Let's go over answers...
1. Explain the difference between a type I supernova and a type II supernova
2. How does gravity warp space-time? Include some sketches that explain
these ideas.
3. Describe & draw (if possible) and label a blackhole including the accretion disk,
the event horizon and any other terms you come across in your research.
4. What masses of stars eventually become white dwarf stars, what masses make blackholes
and which become supernovae?
5. What will the sun become in various stages of it's life?
6. Why can't we send a probe into a blackhole to discover more about them?
arrange them on the spectrum from the longest
wavelengths to the shortest. Then explain which has the most energy and how you know.
Announcements: All work by tomorrow
Bring a cereal box
Opening Data: Electromagnetic Spectrum
Visible spectrum & application to astronomy
The rest of the spectrum & how color works
Questions: Let's go over answers...
1. Explain the difference between a type I supernova and a type II supernova
2. How does gravity warp space-time? Include some sketches that explain
these ideas.
3. Describe & draw (if possible) and label a blackhole including the accretion disk,
the event horizon and any other terms you come across in your research.
4. What masses of stars eventually become white dwarf stars, what masses make blackholes
and which become supernovae?
5. What will the sun become in various stages of it's life?
6. Why can't we send a probe into a blackhole to discover more about them?
Tues., Nov. 27, 2012
Objectives: Research on star types
Announcements: All work must be in by Thurs.
Opening Data: 3 methods to find exoplanets
Questions: Use the internet to research these...
2. How does gravity warp space-time? Include some sketches that explain
these ideas.
3. Describe & draw (if possible) and label a blackhole including the accretion disk,
the event horizon and any other terms you come across in your research.
4. What masses of stars eventually become white dwarf stars, what masses make blackholes
and which become supernovae?
5. What will the sun become in various stages of it's life?
6. Why can't we send a probe into a blackhole to discover more about them?
Announcements: All work must be in by Thurs.
Opening Data: 3 methods to find exoplanets
Questions: Use the internet to research these...
2. How does gravity warp space-time? Include some sketches that explain
these ideas.
3. Describe & draw (if possible) and label a blackhole including the accretion disk,
the event horizon and any other terms you come across in your research.
4. What masses of stars eventually become white dwarf stars, what masses make blackholes
and which become supernovae?
5. What will the sun become in various stages of it's life?
6. Why can't we send a probe into a blackhole to discover more about them?
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