Transcript Review for Test 1

Review for Quiz 1
Outline of Part 1
• Motions of the Earth (as reflected on the sky)
 Celestial Sphere, equator, constellations, zodiac
 Diurnal, Annual, Precession, Solar and Sidereal time
• Motions of the Moon (with respect to Earth and Sun)
 Monthly, Phases, Eclipses
• Motions of the Planets (Geocentric vs. Heliocentric)
 Parallax, Retrograde motion, Epicycles, etc.
 Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe, Kepler, Newton, Kepler’s Laws
• Newton’s Laws
 Mass, Weight, Force, Velocity, Gravity, Orbits, Tides
• Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
 Wavelength, Frequency, Energy, Photons, Inverse Square Law
 Creating Light (Blackbody, Emission, Absorption spectra)
 Telescopes (reflectors, refractors, what they do)