PHYS 133 Academic Honesty Worksheet - Fall 2015
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Name: Section: Date: PHYS 133 Academic Honesty Worksheet - Fall 2015 The University of Delaware's Code of Conduct clearly outlines a general expectation for students to act honestly and professionally within the classroom. Plagiarism, fabrication, cheating, or any other forms of academic dishonesty will NOT be tolerated, and students found in violation of the University's code will be penalized and reported through the appropriate channels. A brief description of our expectations pertaining to labs are defined below: Plagiarism: The University's Code of Conduct1 defines plagiarism as \the inclusion of some else's words, ideas, images, or data as one's own," and states that \[w]hen a student submits academic work that includes anothers words, ideas, images, or data...the source of that information must be acknowledged with complete and accurate references and, if verbatim statements are included, with quotation marks as well (Section A.2.a.)." Any graded work that results from shared ideas must give credit to all authors involved. Practically, this means that submitted lab reports should contain the names of all lab partners involved. It also requires that any definitions or ideas borrowed from another source be properly quoted and cited. Fabrication: This is defined by the Code of Conduct to be \the use of information or the falsification of research or other findings (Section A.2.b.)." In lab, this clause prohibits the invention of data or the falsification of results. Forgery of any kind will also not be tolerated. Cheating: The University's Code of Conduct defines cheating in detail, including but not limited to the \copying [of] another's academic work, [or] allowing another person to copy one's own academic work (Section 2.A.c)." In PHYS 133, this means if you work with someone else, you are allowed to submit a joint paper that is the product of both individuals' thoughts and reflections, as long as both authors receive credit. It is also acceptable to discuss ideas as a group. However, work that is required to be submitted individually must be written in your own words, even if you discussed the concepts with a partner. In PHYS 133 Lab, we take academic honesty violations very seriously, including but not limited to: • Copying another student's data, prelab, or lab work • Allowing another student to copy your data, prelab, or lab work • Plagiarism of any form • Fabrication of any kind (this includes forged data) Should your TA and/or your Professor determine that you are in violation of the PHYS 133 cheating policy, you will be subject to the following sanctions, at the discretion of your TA and/or your Professor, that include but are not limited to: • Losing credit for the plagiarized (copied, etc.) part of the assignment • Losing credit for the whole assignment in question • Losing a fraction of your total PHYS 133 lab grade • Receiving penalties issuing from a report made to the University of Delaware's Office of Student Conduct At any point this semester, if you are unsure of how to proceed on an assignment or avoid plagiarism, ask your TAs, and we will be happy to help you. The following exercises are designed to help you learn to recognize and avoid plagiarism, to help you better succeed in the PHYS 133 labs. Complete the rest of this worksheet and return it to your TA in your first scheduled lab session. 1\Student Guide to University Policies : Code of Conduct." Student Guide to University Policies : Code of Conduct. University of Delaware, 2015. Web. 10 Aug. 2015. <http://www.udel.edu/stuguide/15-16/code.html#honesty>. Name: Section: Date: Part 1 Directions: Read the article \Direct-Image Discovery of a Young Jupiter" by Monica Young2, then identify which of the following statements (if any) are plagiarized. If you think the statement isn't plagiarized, write \ok" in the box below the question; if plagiarized, write \plagiarized" and state why. 1. (2 points) The direct-imaging instrument Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) recently found a baby-Jupiter in a solar system only 100 light-years away. 2. (2 points) The new planet Eridani b may bear similarities to Jupiter, but it certainly isn't an exact copy. As Young writes, \Even through methane is present on Jupiter as well, its detection in 51 Eridani b was a surprise, since previously direct-imaged planets haven't shown clear methane signatures" (Young, par. 6). 3. (2 points) The difference between a cold-start model and a hot-start model is that in the former, \gas giants begin as dense, solid cores that then gather gas around them," while in the latter \planets don't use a rocky seed but begin as instabilities in the star's gaseous protoplanetary disk." 4. (2 points) The dozen or so exoplanets found so far have all been so hot, astronomers have had difficulty developing a definite system for identifying formation mechanisms. 5. (2 points) Caltech's Davy Kirkpatrick states that scientists are unsure of the formation mechanism for the new-found exoplanet (Young, par. 10). 2Young, Monica. \Direct-Image Discovery of a Young Jupiter." Sky and Telescope Magazine (2015): n. pag. 17 Aug. 2015. Web. F+W Media, Inc, 24 Aug. 2015. Page 2 Name: Section: Date: Part 2 Directions: Read the article \Robotic Flyers: The Future of Space Exploration?" by David Dickinson3, and answer the following questions. Be careful to NOT plagiarize! 6. (2 points) What is an EAF? What makes it so useful for space exploration? 7. (2 points) Why can't you use a GPS with an EAF? 8. (2 points) Which foreign worlds would these robots explore? 9. (2 points) Why is Swamp Works an \ideal laboratory for extreme flyers" (Davidson, par. 7)? 10. (2 points) According to the article, is the new robot technology exclusively for space exploration? If not, where else could it be used? 3Dickinson, David. \Robotic Flyers: The Future of Space Exploration?" Sky and Telescope Magazine (2015): n. pag. F+W Media, Inc, 18 Aug. 2015. Web. 24 Aug. 2015. This worksheet was developed by Christiana Erba for the University of Delaware's PHYS 133 Lab Class, last updated by the author on September 1, 2015. Page 3 8/24/2015 Direct-Image Discovery of a Young Jupiter - Sky & Telescope Register Log In Search HOME NEWS OBSERVING EQUIPMENT RESOURCES & EDUCATION COMMUNITY MULTIMEDIA SUBSCRIBE MAGAZINE SHOP Download Your Free FREE eBOOK Astrophotography Primer Enter Email Astrophotography Now from Sky & Telescope! DirectImage Discovery of a Young Jupiter By: Monica Young | August 17, 2015 The Gemini Planet Imager has discovered its first exoplanet, a young Jupiter still glowing with the heat of its formation. Only 100 lightyears away, a justformed gas giant orbits a Sunlike star, the infant equivalent of Jupiter in the solar system — and the first exoplanet discovery for the directimaging instrument Gemini Planet Imager (GPI). The discovery image from Gemini Planet Imager of 51 Eridani b, a gas giant orbiting a star 100 lightyears away. Gemini Observatory / J. Rameau / C. Marois GPI is part of the nextgen suite of directimaging instruments, which also includes SPHERE, ScEXAO, and Project 1640. It captures infrared light from stars and their young (less than 1 billion years old) planets. The starplanet contrast is better at infrared wavelengths than in visible light, at least for young systems, since giant planets still glow appreciably with the leftover heat of their formation. GPI operates with a coronagraphic mask, to block most of a star’s light, and silicon microchip deformable http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/direct-image-discovery-of-a-young-jupiter-0817201567/?et_mid=777854&rid=247463745 1/4 8/24/2015 Direct-Image Discovery of a Young Jupiter - Sky & Telescope mirrors, whose shape can bend to cancel out atmospheric turbulence. Some diffracted starlight still leaks through in a speckled pattern, but thanks to the adaptive optics, the instrument can make out planets as long as they are big, young, and hot enough, and far enough from their parent star to escape from its glare. GPI is imaging 600 young, nearby stars in a sweeping search for exoplanets between 2014 and 2016. The discovery of 51 Eridani b came as the team was about 20% of the way through the survey. A Young Jupiter? 51 Eridani b is a gas giant 13 astronomical units from its 20 millionyearold star, which, if it were orbiting our Sun, would put it farther out than Jupiter — somewhere between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. As directly imaged planets go, this one is relatively cool at 750 Kelvin (900°F). Nearinfrared spectra show that this planet’s atmosphere contains methane and water vapor. Even though methane is present on Jupiter as well, its detection in 51 Eridani b was a surprise, since This artist's conception of 51 Eridani b shows the hot layers deep in its atmosphere glowing through the clouds. Because this system is only 20 previously directimaged planets million years old, the planet still radiates the heat of its formation. haven’t shown clear methane DanielleFutselaar and Franck Marchis signatures. Though the team obtained two images of the planet, one in December 2014 and one in January 2015, not enough time had elapsed between the two observations to track the planet’s motion around its star. So its mass is still a bit of a mystery. Plugging its temperature into models, Bruce Macintosh (Stanford University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and colleagues estimate its mass could be anywhere between 2 and 12 Jupiter masses. Forming Planets: ColdStart vs.