We continued our exploration about the birth of our solar system.
We watched an animation found at this website:
http://astronomyonline.org/Animations/SAO/SolarSystemFormation.mov
This animation showed the various stages of the formation of a solar system. Similar illustrations are found in our textbook on pages 36 and 37.
We also discussed gravity--and we did asked and then answered the question "What if you dropped a rock into a tunnel that went through the earth? What would happen?"
At the end of class we looked at the flash game orbit found at the following website (or google Orbit Game)
http://www.mofunzone.com/online_games/orbit.shtml
We investigated Keplers 1st and 2nd rule, then drew and labelled ellipses.
Our homework was to read pages 39-42 and complete the section review on page 42
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