AstronomyTeacher

The results of the planet test--the open reponse portion in particular-- were so bad, it is obvious I need to do a better job teaching the material. The test scores are thrown out, and we will spend perhaps a week reteaching the material and we will retake the open response portion again (with new values inserted.)

The topics specifically we need to cover are:
Unique characteristics of the major planetary and satellites of the solar system.
Newton's Law of Gravity. Calculating force and calculating acceleration.
Computing quantities based on Kepler's Laws including planetary transfer orbits.
Measuring ellipses and isolating values from the drawings.

Too many of you skipped every math question for this to be just a bad day of testing.

Today, we'll begin with notes followed up by extensive homework on each type of problem.