Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Today in class, we got some examples of what our big project should look like and then we went over a couple of sheets.

Here are the answers for the worksheets we corrected:

Chapter 8 Study Guide (Universal Gravitation):

Inversely
Square
F=G(M1 x M2)/R²
Force
R
Constant
Doubled
Halved
1/4

Chapter 8 Study Guide (Newton's Use of His Law of Universal Gravitation):

Second
Kepler's

Chapter 8 Study Guide (Weighing Earth):

Henry Cavendish
Attraction
Law of U.G.
6.67 x 10^-11 N x M²/Kg²

Chapter 8 Study Guide Section 8.1: Motions in the Heavens and on Earth:

1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False (Sun)
6. False (Area)
7. False (Ratios)
8. False (1st and 2nd)
9. Equal
10. 1
11. Rio -> need to calculate you need
Tio -> T + R of another of Jupiter's moons
12. C
13. A
14. D
15. B

We were assigned questions 16 - 23 on the "Chapter 8 Study Guide Section 8.1: Motions in the Heavens and on Earth" sheet and we also got 2 worksheets to do: "Universal Law of Gravitation" and "Chapter 11: Gravitational Interaction".

That's all folks, next scribe is Dana.