IR Telescope & Digital Thermometer
IR Telescope & Digital Thermometer

 

Code Number: 8D20.30

Demo Title: Infrared Telescopes

Condition: Excellent

Principle: Infrared Heat Detection and Blackbody Radiation

Area of Study: Astronomy

Equipment:

Digital Thermometer with Sensitive Thermocouple, Small Mass Thermocouple, and Styrofoam Block with Hollowed Blackened Cone.

References:

  • H. Richard Crane, "The Cold Night Sky", TPT, Vol. 22, #4, Apr. 1984, p. 248.
  • Barry N. Lightfoot, "An Improved Infra-Red Telescope", TPT, Vol. 18, #1, Jan. 1980, p. 64.
  • Barry N. Lightfoot, "Infrared Telescope", TPT, Vol. 17, #2, Feb. 1979, p. 132.
  • Clifford W. Padgett, William H. Baird, J. Spencer Coile, Wayne M. Johnson, Erin N. Groneck, Robert A Rose, "Thermal Infrared Astronomy for the Introductory Laboratory", AJP, Vol. 91, #2, Feb. 2023, p. 122.
  • G. F. R. Ellis, "Utilization of Low-Grade Thermal Energy by Using Clear Night Sky as a Heat Sink", AJP, Vol. 47, #11, Nov. 1979, p. 1010.
  • Michael C. B. Ashley, "The Care and Feeding of an Antarctic Telescope", Physics Today, Vol. 66. #5, May 2013, p. 60.
  • Bertram Schwarzschild, "Balloon-Borne Telescope Resolves Cosmic Far-IR Background into Starburst Galaxies", Physics Today, Vol. 62, #6, June 2009, p. 14.
  • Paul L. Richards and Craig R. McCreight, "Infrared Detectors for Astrophysics", Physics Today, Vol. 58, #2, Feb. 2005, p. 41.
  • "An Astronaut's View From Space", Ad Astra, Vol. 27, #1, Spring 2015, p. 11.
  • Jearl Walker, "4.13. Water Frozen by the Sky", The Flying Circus of Physics Ed. 2, p. 183.
  • Janice VanCleave, "33. Heat Telescope", Janice VanCleave's 204 Sticky, Gloppy, Wacky, and Wonderful Experiments, p. 20.
  • "Most Powerful Telescopes", Guinness Book of World Records, 2003, p. 73.
  • Forrest Mims III, "The Infrared Thermometer: An Essential Science Gadget", Make: Forrest Mims' Science Experiments, p. 39.