Transcript Feb 11 and 12

Agenda Feb 17
Learning Target: I can describe black matter
Vocabulary: Gravity Waves Gravitational lensing
Cool news:
1. Time for research for essays—essays due next
class period
2. Dark matter and energy notes-Dark matter
tutorial
3. Go over notebook check due next class
Research assignment (this will be instead of a test
on this unit! Due Feb 18: Pick one of the following
and write a 5 paragraph essay. Must have four
sources:
A) research and describe the historical development of the Big
Bang Theory, including red shift, cosmic microwave background
radiation, and other supporting evidence;
(B) research and describe current theories of the evolution of the
universe, including estimates for the age of the universe; and
(C) research and describe scientific hypotheses of the fate of the
universe, including open and closed universes and the role of dark
matter and dark energy.
Possible Sources




Dark Energy website: experiments at McDonald Observatory
Audio and Video resources from the +Texas Cosmology Center
History of Cosmology website from American Institute of Physics
Cosmic Times a NASA project on Cosmology
Homework:
UW
 Read and take Cornell notes: Pg. 661-679
 You must turn these in by February 17