Today, you are going to use Stellarium, a free planetarium program, to investigate what the sky looks like on different planets.

PROCEDURE:

Go to the web and type stellarium.org and download the program. It works on Macs and PCs. Once you do that, go to the lower left of the program and you will see a number of panels. Go to the top one, which is the Location window (F6). Click on it and find San Mateo and click on it. You are now in San Mateo. Below the Location window, is the Date/time window (F5). Click on it and a window will appear to the right. The leftmost part of the window is the month, day, and year. The rightmost part is the time in 24 hour time. At the bottom left of the screen, you will see icons for constellation lines, stars, and the planets. Click on them to show them in the sky. Try to keep the FOV (field of view) to ~ 89 degrees or so.

Set Stellarium for today’s date, April 22 at 7 hr 0 min 0 sec. Face East (E) and notice that the Sun is just above the horizon. We are now going to visit 5 planets to see how a long a day is on them. Go again to the Location window. At the bottom right of this window, you will Planet. Right now it is on Earth, since we set the location to San Mateo. Scroll through until you find Mars and close this window. You will see that the time is 14 hr 0 min 0 sec. Now, face East (E). Scroll through the hour in the Time window until the Sun just appears above the horizon. The hour will be around 22 hr. Now, increase the time until the Sun appears again at the same place on the horizon. How many hours have passed? That number of hours is a day on Mars.

Mars

1. a) Time Sun is above horizon _________hr

b) Next time Sun is above horizon _________hr

c) Difference in time = Length of a Martian day_________hr

Once done with Mars, go to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and repeat the procedure.

Jupiter

2. a) Time Sun is above horizon _________hr

b) Next time Sun is above horizon _________hr

c) Difference in time = Length of a Jovan day_________hr

Saturn

3. a) Time Sun is above horizon _________hr

b) Next time Sun is above horizon _________hr

c) Difference in time = Length of a Saturnian day_________hr

Uranus

4. a) Time Sun is above horizon _________hr

b) Next time Sun is above horizon _________hr

c) Difference in time = Length of a Uranian day_________hr

Neptune

5. a) Time Sun is above horizon _________hr

b) Next time Sun is above horizon _________hr

c) Difference in time = Length of a Neptunian day_________hr

Investigating Saturn

6. a) Go to the Location window and set it to Saturn and face South (S). You are now at the same latitude on Saturn as you were in San Mateo. Set the date to today’s date, April 22 and set the time to sunset by setting the hours to 11 hr 0 min 0 sec. Notice Saturn’s rings! Keeping the Location window open, click on the latitude of 37^o and scroll it upwards about 10^o above 37^o and downward about 10^o below 37^o. What did you notice happened to the rings as you changed your latitude? (a few sentences)

b) Return the latitude to 37^o close the Location window and face South. Make sure that the time is set for 11 hr 0 min 0 sec, which will be around sunset. Change the time slowly from 11 to 15 hr and notice and explain what happens with Saturn’s shadow.

6 c) Set the time back to 12 hr. You should now see a number of Saturn’s moons. What moons do you see? You can tell that they are moons since they will have names that are not constellations and each moon will be followed by (SII, SVI), etc.

7. Lastly, set the time to 20 hr and face West. The Sun should be above the horizon. Find the Search window (F3), (the 4^th icon from the top on the left side of the program). Type Earth and click on it. The program will now center Earth on your screen, but, since it is still daylight, you won’t see anything. Now, zoom inward and what do you see? (a few sentences).

What phase is the Earth?

What have you learned in this lab?

  

Week 1 – Discussion 1

 

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

 

     

Science   in 21st Century American Culture

 Reflecting on your own experiences as well as on the weekly readings, evaluate the role of science in 21st-century American culture. Which influences the other more: science or culture, or do they influence each other equally?
 

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from this week’s required material(s) and popular culture. Properly cite any references. By Day 7, respond to at least two of your classmates, one of whom came to a different conclusion than you, as well to one of your instructor’s posts. 

  

Respond 

Search on line, news chanels or use a  youtube video intervew of a victim of a crime explaining ther account of the incident. Attach the video

Write  4 pages about the video, describing the pysical impact, psycological, socail, financial and legal issues around the crime and what the victim went through. What kinds of treatment can the victim get. Also include legal information about the crime and the offenders charges if any.

APA Format for the writen part 

Global Citizens Assignment: Playspent.org: Social Institutions, Social Structures, and Social Stratification. This assignment is designed to help students become familiar with aspects of socioeconomic inequality and the role social institutions and social structures play in perpetuating these inequalities. It addresses learning goals of critical thinking, inquiry-based learning, human and cultural diversity, and ethical perspectives.

Step 1: Think critically about the readings, notes, and class discussions about stratification and structures of inequality. 

Step 2: Explore the website www.playspent.org, an interactive web-based platform that simulates the experiences of individuals trying to live “paycheck-to-paycheck.” It is recommended that you go through the simulation at LEAST twice. 

Step 3: Reflect on the experience. Be sure to not only discuss the outcome of your game but also include the scenarios presented to you as well as the decisions that you made as you navigated the simulation. Here, it is crucial to include discussions of social institutions and social structures and their role in perpetuating socioeconomic stratification.

Step 4: Reflect on your experience in light of your understanding of relative vs absolute poverty. Compare and contrast the ways in whichlocal poverty differs from global poverty.

Step 5: Generate a report summarizing your findings. Minimum length is 3 double-spaced pages with normal font and margins. Submit online as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file. Do NOT use the text entry option. Attach your file, from your computer. Click on the title of the assignment above to submit. 

Grading Rubric (what I'm looking for):

1. Follow all instructions (Minimum 3 FULL double-spaced pages (no max), normal 12 pt. font, normal margins, submit file as instructed above). 

2. The majority of the paper should be a detailed description of the questions you were asked in the simulation, and the decisions you made, and why. 

3. You should also include a few paragraphs defining absolute vs relative poverty and local vs global poverty, and discussing which of these seems most relevant to the simulation. What did you learn from this simulation? Describe. 

4. Your writing should be clear, coherent, and grammatically correct.

 NOTE: Your submission will be processed through SafeAssign, which is software that checks for plagiarism. If you have any questions about what counts as plagiarism, please let me know.