Syllabus Stuff
This is the penalty for late work
What is there is no penalty?
This is the protagonist in Behind the Curve
Who is Mark Sargent?
The Earth rotates on its axis once in this time interval
What is 24 hours?
This motion of the Earth determines the length of the years
What is revolution?
This is the name of our galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
This is the deadline for late work
What is one week before the end of the quarter?
This tool is stable when spun and able to measure the rotation of the Earth
What is a gyroscope?
What is June 21?
The Earth has a mass of 6.0 x 1024 kg. The moon has a mass of 7.3 x 1022 kg. The Earth and moon are 3.84 x 108 meters apart. This is the force, in newtons, between the Earth and moon
What is 2.0 x 1020 newtons?
This is the name of Taylor Lautner's spouse
What is Taylor Lautner?
These are the categories of assignments
What are participation, labs, and assessments?
This man worked with brain coach Michael Lavery to develop his penmanship, memory, and coordination
Who is hammer-and-ping-pong-ball guy?
On the day with the longest night in the northern hemisphere, it is this month in the southern hemisphere
What is December?
Kepler's Third Law states that this ratio is the same for all objects orbiting the same central object
What is (orbital distance)3/(orbital period)2?
This is the most recent country to gain membership in the United Nations
This is the name of your teacher.
(Spelling counts)
What is Mr. LeCompte?
To explain the negative results of this experiment, Jeran Campanella claimed it was the result of weeds blocking the light
What is the laser-leveling experiment?
What are the equinoxes?
The ISS orbits the earth once every 90 minutes at distance of 6.79 x 106 m away from the center of the Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope orbits at a distance of 6.89 x 106 m once in this many minutes.
What is 92 minutes?
This is the only state on the East Coast whose capital does NOT have an interstate highway going to it
What is Delaware?
The three points on classwork are awarded for completing these three tasks
What are starting each page, completing each page, and leaving evidence that each page was checked against the answer key?
Meta-conspiracy theorists believe this woman was sent from the "CIA" to "Steer" people in the wrong direction
Who is Patricia Steere?
The only places on Earth where the midnight sun can be seen are within these circles
What are the Arctic and Antarctic Circles?
The hypothetical Planet X would have an orbital period of 15,000 years, which means it orbits this far away from the sun.
What is 9.12 x 1013 meters? (608 AU)
This was the name of the first mission to land people on the moon
What is Apollo 11?