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1. Greek views of Explain how the Greeks knew that the Week 1 S11/12PS-IVa-38
matter, motion, and the Earth is spherical
universe Cite examples of astronomical phenomena Week 1 S11/12PS-IVa-4
2. competing known to astronomers before the advent
models of the universe of telescopes
by Eudoxus, Aristotle, Week 1 S11/12PS-IVb-44
Aristarchus, Ptolemy,
Explain how Brahe’s innovations and
3. Copernicus,
extensive collection of data in
Brahe, and Kepler
observational astronomy paved the way
4. evidence that
for Kepler’s discovery of his laws of
the Earth is not the
planetary motion
center of the universe
1. Aristotelian vs. Compare and contrast the Aristotelian and Week 2 S11/12PS-IVc-46
Galilean views of Galilean conceptions of vertical motion,
motion horizontal motion, and projectile motion.
2. how Galileo used his
discoveries in
mechanics (and explain how Galileo inferred that objects Week 2 S11/12PS-IVc-47
astronomy) to in vacuum fall with uniform acceleration,
address scientific and that force is not necessary to sustain
objections to the horizontal motion
Copernican model