ASTR 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Electromagnetism, Solar Wind, Orbital Period
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Galileo galilei and the scientific method: basic information, 1564 1642, father of modern science, first person to observe with a telescope, supported heliocentric model, scientific method, collect data (experiment, observations, analyze data (patterns, correlations, develop an explanation (hypothesis, find other ways to test the hypothesis, discoveries made, the moon, galileo discovered the moon had mountains and valleys, objects in the heavens are not smooth, perfect spheres, the sun, the sun contains dark spots, the sun rotates, jupiter, galileo discovered 4 moons around jupiter (galilean moons, venus, galileo proved that venus goes through a full set of phases, not possible in ptolemaic model, other discovers by galileo, saturn has rings (ears, the milky way has thousands (billions) of stars, heavens are bigger than imagined, inquisition. 6. 7 x 10^-11 m3/kg/s2: m 1,2 masses of the 2 objects, r distance between the 2 objects. Scale of the sun and solar system: phobos and deimos.
