07-14-2009 at 10:41 PM
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i really want to take this course this year but i dont have any room so im going to take it next year as an elective!!!
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07-14-2009 at 11:57 PM
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i really want to take this course this year but i dont have any room so im going to take it next year as an elective!!!
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Yay! me too 
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07-15-2009 at 01:41 AM
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I really want this course this year. Any chance of someone dropping it once timetables are released?
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07-15-2009 at 01:48 AM
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haha I'm good at making the Observing Project sound scary, I had to spend hours upon hours analyzing 300 or so data points and plot them all on graphs then write a paper about it. DX
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Wow, analyzing 300 data points?!? Sounds interesting and scary at the same time lol
I'm taking this course in first term, and I can't wait! I LOVE astronomy!
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07-15-2009 at 01:50 AM
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Wow, analyzing 300 data points?!? Sounds interesting and scary at the same time lol
I'm taking this course in first term, and I can't wait! I LOVE astronomy!
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Time to break out the TI-83+ Astronomy Edition 
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07-15-2009 at 01:59 AM
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Time to break out the TI-83+ Astronomy Edition |
aka TI-83 Plus Silver Edition
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07-15-2009 at 07:47 AM
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Wow, analyzing 300 data points?!? Sounds interesting and scary at the same time lol
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Haha, some say interesting, more say stressful. >.< But don't procrastinate, especially if you have little to no experience with Excel, and it'll all workout.
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07-15-2009 at 08:16 AM
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After days of checking SOLAR I finally got into this class the night before SOLAR closed. =D
What does this project involve? Excel/spreadsheets are no problem to me but I'm wondering what this project is all about. Hmm..
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07-15-2009 at 09:27 AM
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Wow that was lucky!
As long as it's not changed, the project has to do with the orbital periods of Jupitor's four moons.
Basically, throughout the entire semester, students are assigned a night where we go out and plot Jupitor and it's four visible moons on a paper using a telescope. The point of this to determine the distances of the moons from Jupitor's centre, in terms of Jupitor's radius.
We then collect all of our data and put it on the Astron 1F03 wiki. Then our individual work starts. We take all that data (say 100 kids in the class, about 3-4 moons each so at least 300 data points) and put it in spreadsheet in Excel.
Now here is the problem solving part. We have to figure out a way to organize the data so we can plot the graphs of the moon's orbits. The point of the project is to determine which moon is which (ex. Moon1 could be Ganymede) using the graphs and orbital periods.
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07-15-2009 at 10:08 AM
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The course sounds so interesting! I can only take it in second year though, too many interesting electives to take >.< 
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07-16-2009 at 02:07 PM
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Im taking it! Im so happy i got it!!
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07-16-2009 at 02:21 PM
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Awesome COURSE
THE TEACHER DR REID WAS AWESOME
wasn't too hard course, some computational
EXAM WAS GREAT, STRAIGHT FROM THE REVIEW QUESTIONS
Assignments were easy too, many tries allowed, and bonus assignments.
Observing projects alot of people got > perfect
If you need to buy a book I can sell cheap, 30$
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07-16-2009 at 02:23 PM
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If you go to DR. REID he will explain how to use a spreadsheet, which is one of the methods to do the project. Nice guy, he explained me how to use it.
If you need a textbook for next year for this course, talk to me about it.
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07-17-2009 at 12:56 AM
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Haha, some say interesting, more say stressful. >.< But don't procrastinate, especially if you have little to no experience with Excel, and it'll all workout. |
I'm pretty good with Excel, I've used it a lot in high school. Thanks for the tip though, I'll be sure not to procrastinate (if that's possible!) lol
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07-25-2009 at 01:40 PM
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Hey! For all of the people lookinf for Astron 1f03. It's available on SOLAR right now!
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