Week 2:  Moon's motion and Eclipses

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    Astronomy and Cosmologies, Spring 99
    with E.J. Zita
     
    Monday 5.April Tuesday 6.April
    Wednesday 7.April
    		 Thursday 8.April Friday 9.April
    (1:30-2:30  Zita meets with Physical Systems group contract in Lab I Rm 1050) 1:00-2:00:  Research Paper writing workshop by KEY services in Lib 2118 (Zita gone to curriculum planning workshop) (Zita gone to curriculum planning workshop)

    Matter and Motion presents ARCADIA, a play about a brilliant girl who discovered fractals a century ago, TOMORROW night in Lecture Hall building... look for purple signs with details...  FREE
    3:30-5:30  in Lib 1316 
    • Ch.1-2 homework due at 3:30 in class
    • one-page Baloney Detection paper due
    • Read Ch.3
    • bring questions
    		 2:00-3:00  Lib 4004 
    class governance:  meet with your research partner to discuss your project and draft your proposal.  Bring it to class tomorrow evening.    		 3:30-5:30 in the Computer Center 

    Meet Susan Bustetter in the GCC for your first MANDATORY Web Authoring workshop. 

    Susan will give you a home page and help you learn to customize it.

    		 Project proposals due at noon:  rewrite your one-page paper from yesterday, and include a discussion of what you intend to observe. 

    (in the box outside Pam Udovich's office: Lab I Rm 1020)
    1-3:00  Lib 4004 
    optional group work (e.g. finishing homework for tomorrow...)    		 6:30-9:00 workshop in CAL:   
     
    • Eclipses + SN#4 
    • Bring research proposals for a 5-minute conference with each team.
    • fill out a workshop report
    		 6:30-9:00  in Lib 1612 
    • Write a one-page paper on your research project:  the basics of modern scientific understanding of the phenomenon, and a paragraph or two about how another culture understood it.
    • Read it aloud in class, and give each other feedback on clarity and meaning.
    • Rewrite it to turn in tomorrow.
    		 Read next week's syllabus today after 1:00. 

    Copy your project proposal to your web page, and send your URL to Zita in an email message.  Work with classmates in the computer center or CAL so you can help each other.
    Zita's notes 9-11?  observe on Grassy Knoll if clear 9-11? observe on Library Roof if clear HW due next Tuesday: 
    Ch.3 # 3, 12, 25, 28, 29 + OP # 34 
     

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