Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Thursday's lecture = GO

We will have regular lecture on Thursday morning, back to the normal schedule.

Thursday's lecture will be on gravitation, so do some reading and skimming in chapter 5, if you have 30 min. Especially look at the diagrams and illustrations. We will review and elaborate the blurb on p. 81, "Working it out|Gravity" plus some of the exercises on circular motion and orbits from chapter 4, p. 73:

  1. exercise 8, generic circular motion;
  2. exercise 9, Earth-Sun orbital system;
  3. exercise 10, Earth-Moon orbital system.
You can eyeball those tonight and maybe bug Ashton and Meg with questions in Discussions. :)

See you Thursday morning, GO FOR LAUNCH!

Accurate diagram of Earth-Moon system