Review Questions for Lecture 5

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    Review Terms

    Epicycle
    Parallax
    Triangulation
    Planet
    Aristotle
    Baseline
    Aristarchus
    Geocentric Model
    Retrograde Motion
    Direct Motion

    Review Concepts

    How do you calculate the size of Earth?

    How do you show that the Earth is round?

    What is an Epicycle?

    What is retrograde motion?

    How is triangulation used to measure astronomical distances?