Astronomy Web Exercises
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Light
UBC Simulations, including Blackbody Radiation, and Doppler Effect
Blackbody radiation demo: “Toast the Robot”
Solar spectrum lab from U. Washington (Ask me if I have a worksheet handout to use instead of theirs)
Star exercises at Cornell:
· Understanding Stellar Parallax (“Trigonometric parallax”)
· Spectroscopic binary star system
· star cluster in HR-diagram: stellar evolution
Similar
Star simulations can be found at UBC:
· HR Diagram
· Stellar Parallax
· Eclipsing binary stars
· Search for black holes
· Sky
Planet positions around the sun
For today: 1) is Venus a
morning star or an evening star? 2) Can
Mars be seen at
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Moon (worksheet) (MSword document)
Exercise 1: See the lunar phases cycle (broken link?) Note the true shape of a “Gibbous” moon (the phase between full and half)
Exercise 2: “View” the moon from the Earth, and then view the Earth from the moon.
Explain how the two phases at a given time are related (i.e., if told the phase of the moon as seen from Earth, what is the phase of the Earth as seen from the moon?)
· Planet games
Who wants to be a millionaire, or “Rags to Riches”: 1) Planets 2) Moons (I got 4 wrong)
Planets info: Matching planet with phrase
If those aren’t enough, spend hours at U Oregon!
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