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Overview In this lab you will develop your own scale for a solar system model. Using the data for the planets in the back of the textbook, you will calculate the distances each planet would be from a "scale model" of the Sun. Materials Paper, Pen/Pencil, Calculator/Spreadsheet, a little bit of math

          Overview
In this lab you will develop your own scale for a solar system model. Using the data for the planets
in the back of the textbook, you will calculate the distances each planet would be from a "scale
model" of the Sun.
Materials
Paper, Pen/Pencil, Calculator/Spreadsheet, a little bit of math

Overview
In this lab you will develop your own scale for a solar system model. Using the data for the planets
in the back of the textbook, you will calculate the distances each planet would be from a "scale
model" of the Sun.
Materials
Paper, Pen/Pencil, Calculator/Spreadsheet, a little bit of math

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University Physics with Modern Physics

Hugh D. Young 14th Edition

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Choose a scale for the model. For example, let's say 1 astronomical unit (AU) is equal to 1 meter in our model. (1 AU is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun, which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers.) Show more…

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Needs calculations from each planet Overview In this lab, you will develop your own scale for a solar system model. Using the data for the planets in the back of the textbook, you will calculate the distances each planet would be from a scale model of the Sun. Materials Paper, Pen/Pencil, Calculator/Spreadsheet, a little bit of math