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    ASTRONOMY 103  

  Week 3

Spring  2002

Date

Class Topic

Readings/Assignments

Monday,   

Feb. 11 

Video: Venus Unveiled 

 Any one of these sources about Venus:
  • Chapter 9 of the textbook
  • Venus from the Exploring the planets web site

Also, look at the study questions about the video before class. 

Wednesday, 

Feb. 13

Discussion of article and video

 Article: "Global Climatic Change on Venus", Scientific American, March 1999; 

Please read and think about the study questions about the article before class. 

Friday,   

Feb. 15

Surface processes; Tectonics

 Ch. 7.1 - 7.4 (including more precisely 7.2); * The basics of plate tectonics

Due: Internet Assignment (Earth web site)

* marks optional (but useful!) readings  

week 1 week2 week 3 week 4 week 5   week 6   week 7
week 8 week 9 week 10 week 11   week 12 week 13 week 14

Final weekly schedules will be posted by 5:00 p.m. on the previous Friday!  

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Announcements:

1) Advanced warning: Exam 1 is at the end of next week (Friday, Feb. 22). 

Assignments:

1) Internet Assignment Due, Friday, Feb. 15 in class: Earth Web Site (3 point grade)

Okay, so Earth is a pretty cool planet and is rather important to us, but we have only one class day scheduled for it! (If you want more, take Geo 111). To make up for this lack in class, your next Internet assignment will be about the Earth. Go out to the net and find a cool web site with information about the Earth. Look for web sites that would be interesting or useful to this class. Write a paragraph describing or reviewing the site, and write a paragraph telling me why you found this site interesting. Also, give me a short (one or few sentence) description of how you found your site. Be sure to give me the url so that I can visit your site!