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Project Physics Teacher Guide 2, Motion in the Heavens DOCUMIDIT RESUPI8 RD 071 891 is 015 528 . TITLE- Project Physics Teacher Guide 2, Motion in the Heavens. INSTITUTION Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass. Harvard Project Physics. SPONB AGENCY. Office. of Education (PHEW), Washington, D.C..Bureau . of Research. BUREAU NO BR -5 -1038 PUB DATE 68 CONTRACT OEc-5-10-058 NOTE 346p.; Authorized Interim Version . _ . EDRS PRICE MF-80.65 HC- $13.16 DESCRIPTORS *Astronomy; Instructional Materials;_*Multimedia instruction; Physical. Sciences;_ *Physics; Science .Activities;. Secondary Grades;-*Secondary School. Science; *Teaching_Guides ..IDENTIFIERS Harvard Project Physics ABSTRACT . Teaching procedures of Project Physics .Unit 2 are presented to.help_teachers make effective use of loorning. materials, The unit. contents are discussed in_connection with teaching aid_ perspectives, multi-media schedules, schedule blocks, and resource charts.. Analyses are made for transparencies, 16mm films, and reader Articles. Included. is about the background and. .development of each unit, chapter, demonstration. methods,ap."aratus operations, notes on:the student handbook,,and explanation of film loops.: Additional articles, deal with calendars, armillary sphere, epicycles,. "chase problem,r.Atmospheric refraction, relations in an __ellipse,. moon's irregular motion,. initial and gravitationalmass, G. measuring,, and *true*, scale sun, moon, and earth. -A redesigned .epicycle.machine is analyze, and a bibliography of _reference texteL, . and periodicals is. given, -Solutions to study guide,problems in the. text and review .problems in the handbook are provided in.detail.along with. suggested answers to test items...Thesecond. unitof the text, with. marginal notes on each_section, is...also compiled in this guide. _The work. of Harvard Project Physics has been financially supported _by:.the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the National.Science_FoundatiOng the Alfred.P* Sloan.Foundation, -the United States Office of, Education, and Harvard University..(CC) Project Physics Teacher Guide An introduction to Physics Motion in the Heavens .4; 44. ,; U S. 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