Happy Birthday Kepler (Dec 27)

It's the birthday of astronomer Johannes Kepler, born to a poor mercenary in Württemberg, Germany (1571), who tracked the orbital path of Mars and published his three famous laws of planetary motion - which validated Copernicus's theory of a sun-centered solar system - and later helped Isaac Newton discover the law of gravity. Kepler was nearly blind from a smallpox epidemic when he was three, and he developed the first eyeglass designs for nearsightedness and farsightedness. He was also the first to explain that the tides are caused by the moon, the first to propose that the sun rotates on an axis, and the first to use planetary cycles to calculate the year of the birth of Jesus Christ.

Homework and Agenda for 12.18.14

Read Chapter 31.3, pp  847 - 854
Do problems 1 - 6, pg 851
study questions 1-6, pg 856 for quiz

• Final Exam on 12/18/14
• Bring a #2 pencil

Homework due 12.16.14

Read Chapter 31.2

Do problems 1-6 pg 846 

Start studying questions 1-6, pg 856 for quiz

Friday schedule

Just in case you wondered, Friday is an odd day, even though we missed an even day today. Spread the word. 

Homework due December 12, 2014

832 - 838
Do problems 1 - 6 pg 838

Start studying questions 1-6, pg 856 for quiz

Homework and agenda for December 10, 2014

Read Chapter 7.3, pp167 - 173
Do Problems 1 - 5 pg 173

There will be a quiz! 
questions 1 - 10 on pg 178

Homework Due December 8, 2014

Read Chapter 7.2, pp 162 - 166
Do Problems 1 - 5 pg 166

Continue studying questions 1 - 10 on pg 178
(remember, there will be a quiz on these questions)

Homework due Dec 4, 2014

Read chapter 7.1, pp 152 - 161
Do problems 1 - 4 pg 161.
Start studying questions 1 - 10 on pg 178