First half of Astronomy 109 @ Rutgers University
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How does science work, in steps? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What is a paradigm? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Hydrogen and Helium, the rest were made in stars
🗑
|
||||
| show | completely certain conclusions given accurate premises
🗑
|
||||
| show | uncertain conclusions
🗑
|
||||
| What is a theory? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The apparent dome of the sky
🗑
|
||||
| Zenith is? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The circle from north through zenith to south
🗑
|
||||
| Where is the sun at Noon? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Celestial equator is? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Right ascension is? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Declination is? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The angle from north through east along the horizon
🗑
|
||||
| Altitude is? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Azimuth and Altitude coordinates are local and change with time, what doesn't? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | 0 degrees to 180 degrees
🗑
|
||||
| show | Summer
🗑
|
||||
| show | Summer
🗑
|
||||
| show | Motion for East to west, 24 hours
🗑
|
||||
| show | Stars that never set
🗑
|
||||
| show | Noon to noon
🗑
|
||||
| A Sidereal day is? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | 4 minutes
🗑
|
||||
| The sun moves Annually from N-S and W to E along..? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Diurnal, monthly from W to E
🗑
|
||||
| The sailor moon crescent moon is actually called? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A half moon, the white part being on the right. The last quarter has the white part on the left.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The full moon is fully illuminated, the new moon is all dark.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Waxing and Waning Gibbous
🗑
|
||||
| show | The darkest shadow cast by the planet on another planet, in the middle between the lighter penumbra shadows
🗑
|
||||
| show | the lighter shadow cast during an eclipse onto another planet. It surrounds the umbra, the darkest shadow.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The earths shadow falling on the moon
🗑
|
||||
| show | The moons shadow falls on the earth
🗑
|
||||
| show | The 18 year 11 month period of eclipse cycles
🗑
|
||||
| Planets motion is? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Pythagoras' birth date and theories: | show 🗑
|
||||
| Philolaus' birth date and theories: | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | (375-310 BC) Mercury and venus orbit sun, explains retrograde motion and positions of mercury and venus. sun and other other planets orbit earth
🗑
|
||||
| Aristarchus' birth date and theories: | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | (428-348 BC) Theory has a "real" world of perfection vs our "visible" world of perception. Hard for his theories to be disproved by evidence bc his theories cannot be proven wrong.
🗑
|
||||
| show | (~370 BC) Made a model of spheres within spheres, 3 spheres per planet, plus sun, moon. 27 spheres total. only crudely represented retrograde motion
🗑
|
||||
| show | (384-322) Held Platos ideas as absolute fact. Theory involved 4 elements: earth, water, air, fire. "natural" places: earth lowest, fire highest. motion arises when objects are displaced from natural place. Argued against heliocentric theory.
🗑
|
||||
| Hipparchus' birth date and theories: | show 🗑
|
||||
| Eratosthenes' birth date and theories: | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | (~150 AD) Used Hippachus' general ideas. Introduced the equant, a point opposite of the eccentric, at thesame distance from the center. Planet's epicycle moves on the deferent at a variable speed, the speed appears constant as seen from the equant.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Used 40 circles in total, set the size of the universe: 20,000 R = 1 AU. Dominated for 1400 years, the most successful scientific theory ever. Accurate predictions
🗑
|
||||
| Hypatia's birth date and contributions: | show 🗑
|
||||
| Copernicus (1273-1543) | show 🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
yami_cassie
Popular Physics sets