EARLY MODEL

OF THE
UNIVERSE
•Ancient ideas and preconceptions

•Development of the modern (Sun

centered) view of the Solar
System
UNIVERSE
GREEK ASTRONOMY
• Greeks seemed to be first culture to study
the world in a systematic and logical
manner.

• But this was 2000+ years ago

GEOCENTRIC MODEL
GEOCENTRIC MODEL
• Earth is the center of the
universe.
• Earth is still.
• The planets, Sun, Moon moves
in circles around Earth
• The stars are fixed onto a giant
sphere that surrounds the
whole system
• There is nothing beyond the
stars
 TERRESTRIAL MOTION

•Movements that the earth makes.

THREE TYPES OF TERRESTRIAL MOTION
 MOTION WITH RESPECT TO
PLACE
This can be simply defined as
locomotion or movement from
one point to another.
MOTION WITH RESPECT TO QUANTITY

•This is a change in magnitude

of some quantity; it is an
increase or decrease.
MOTION WITH RESPECT TO QUALITY

•Change in the “virtue”

of an object.