Physics 55: Educational Links
Applets
Approaches
Courses and Textbooks
General
interest books
Multimedia
Projects
Software
Applets
- Sky View
Cafe, free Java-based digital planetarium.
-
Binary star orbits.
- U. of
Oregon Astrophysics applets.
Approaches:
Multimedia:
-
Astronomy Picture of the Day.
- Black
holes and neutron stars: virtual trips.
- Cool
Cosmos, interactive educational website about
applications of infrared imaging on Earth and to astronomy.
- HubbleSite:
pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope.
- The Nine
Planets, a multimedia tour of the solar system.
- A
Private Universe, 20-minute online video from the Annenberg/CPB site about how
difficult it is for students to overcome their personal models of
how things work. The video interviews Harvard and high school
students who have mistaken ideas about why the seasons occur or
why the moon has phases.
- A
Question of Scale: a pictorial tour from tiny
quarks to the giant universe in steps of a factor of
10. The tour starts here and
you can descend in scale by clicking the "-1" button
near the top right of the web page.
-
Runaway Universe: multimedia presentation about the
universe by NOVA.
-
Seeing Relativity, visualizations of what the world
would look like if the speed of light were much slower,
just a few meters per second.
- Skysurvey.org,
5,000 megapixel scrollable photo of the night sky.
-
Slacker Astronomy, podcasts.
-
Spacesounds, various sounds of the solar system,
pulsars, and the Big Bang translated into the human
range of audition.
Projects:
Software:
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