QUIZ 1 FINALS Flashcards
A Fundamental science that explores the principles governing natural and physical phenomena.
Physics
What is the shape of the earth?
Oblate Spheroid
the earth has ______ equator and ______ poles
the earth has BULGING equator and SQUEEZED poles
he is a greek philosopher born in 384 BC, who proposed the Geocentric Model.
Aristotle
it is a debunked theory that the earth is the center of the universe, with the sun and planets revolving around it.
Geocentric Model
He is a Roman Citize who lived in Egypt born in AD 90, Mathematician and Astronomer. HE THOUGHT HE HAD “PROVED” THROUGH MATH THAT FHE EARTH WAS THE CENTER OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Ptolemy
Who supported Geocentric Model?
Ptolemy and the Catholic Church
He was born in poland in 1473, who formulated the model that the sun was the center of the solar system. Wrote a book about the HELIOCENTRIC THEORY
Copernicus
What book did Copernicus wrote about?
Heliocentric Thoery
What book did copernicus published after his death in 1543?
On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres
It is a supplementary astronomic model in which the earth and planets revolve around the sun at the center of the universe
Heliocentric Model
Be was born in italy in 1564, He invented the Telescope, he was the first to see jupiter’s moons and saturn’s ring.
Galileo
He is known as the “Father of Modern Science” and discovered “Sunspots” on the sun
Galileo
According to Galileo, what was the orbits of the planets?
Circular
According to Kepler, what was the orbit of the planets?
Ellipses
He favored an earth-centered universe different from Ptolemy’s theory. He thought ghat other planets revolved around the sun, and the sun and moon revolved around the Earth
Tycho Brahe (1600)
He is a mathematician and tycho’s assistant who used tycho’s observational data to develop laws of planetary motion.
Johannes Kepler
Kepler’s 3 Laws of Planetary Motion
Law of Ellipses
Law of Equal Areas
Law of Periods
What is the First Law of Planetary Motion
Law of Ellipses
(States that the planets move around the sun in ellipses, with the sun at one focus)
What is Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion
Law of Equal Areas
(The Closer a planet to the sun, that faster it moves)
The Planet’s position in its orbit where it closest to the sun
Perihelion
The Planet’s position in its orbit where it is farthest from the sun.
Aphelion
What is the Third Law of Planetary Motion
Law of Periods
(The Farther a planet is from the sun, the longer it takes to make one complete revolution)
