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Astronomy
Support Equipment
8 - 00.00 - Support Equipment used for Astronomy
8-00.01 - Astronomy Simulations and Animations from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Measurement
1A10.41/8A10.80 - Geochron/Analemma
1A60.10 - Powers of 10
Orbits
1L20.10/8B40.40 - Gravity Well - Black Hole
1L20.30 - Escape Velocity (Escape from a Gravity Well)
1L20.40 - Conical Sections
1L20.50 - Ellipse Maker
1L20.60/8A05.40 - Kepler's Laws
1L20.66/7D30.90 - Orbits on the Overhead/Mass Spectrometer Model
Rotational Dynamics
1Q30.40 - Fluctuating Magnetic Fields/Cons. of Angular Momentum
Statics of Fluids
2B40.55 - Particle Diffusion In Stellar Medium - Percolation & Convection Cells
Wave Motion
2C40.90 - Shock Wave Fronts: Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
3B25.67 - Culvert Whistlers
3B45.13 - Shock Wave Fronts - Hydraulic Jump
Heat and the First Law
4B50.60/8A70.40 - The Greenhouse Effect
Photometry
6B10.25 - Wein's Law - Planetary Sunlight Intensity
6B40.10 - Variac and Light Bulb
6B40.30 - Black Body Radiation
Kirchoff's Law and Spectroscopy
7B10.10 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Emission Lines
7B10.11 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Flame Salts
7B10.15 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Gas Discharge
7B10.20 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Mercury Emission Lines
7B11.15 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Sodium Absorption
7B11.60 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - "Glo-doodler"
7B11.65 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Rare Earths, Didymium Glass
7B11.75 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Chlorophyll
7B11.80 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Food Coloring
7B11.85 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Copper Compounds - "Vanish"
Radioactivity
7D10.80 - Cosmic Rays
Superstring Theory
8-Mani and Calabi - Yau - 4 Manifold, Calabi - Yau, Gosset 421 Polytope
Planetary Astronomy
Historical Astronomy
8A05.05 - Historical Astronomy
8A05.10 - Calendar Wheels
8A05.15 - Stonehenge - Megaliths
8A05.20 - Constellations
8A05.25 - Sky Atlas - Sky Charts
8A05.30 - Eratosthenes' Measurement of Earth's Radius
8A05.35 - Ptolemaic and Copernican Models of the Solar System
8A05.40 - Kepler's Laws
8A05.50 - Circular Sundial
8A05.60 - Cross-Staff
8A05.65 - Meridian Transit - Theodolite
8A05.70 - Celestial Navigation Instruments - Sextants - Astro-compass
8A05.75 - Quadrant / Astrolabe
8A05.80 - Artificial Horizon
8A05.85 - Chronometer
8A05.90 - Heliostat
Solar System Mechanics
8A10.05 - Origin of the Solar System
8A10.10 - Orrery Model
8A10.15 - Scale Model Demos of the Solar System
8A10.20 - Locating Stars
8A10.22 - Tracking Stars, Sun, and Moon
8A10.25 - Diurnal Astronomy
8A10.30 - Planispheric Planetarium
8A10.40 - Sidereal Time
8A10.50 - Procession of the Equinox
8A10.70 - Sunrise - Sunset/Refracted Sun
8A10.75 - Distortion Due to Refraction by Earth's Atmosphere
8A10.80 - Analemma
8A10.90 - Apparent Motion of the Sun
Earth-Moon Mechanics
8A20.05 - Earth's Seasons
8A20.15 - Lunar Phases - Terminator Line Demo
8A20.19 - Phases of the Planets
8A20.20 - Albedo
8A20.22 - Eccentricity of the Moon's Orbit
8A20.25 - Eclipse - Eclipse Model
8A20.30 - Eclipse - Solar Eclipse
8A20.35 - Eclipse - Lunar
8A20.37 - Eclipse Models and Umbra/Penumbra Demos
8A20.40 - Transit - Mercury & Venus
8A20.45 - Occultation
8A20.50 - Earth/Moon System - Center of Mass
8A20.55 - Earth/Moon System - Communications
8A20.60 - Earth/Moon Distance - Lunar Retro-reflector
8A20.65 - Earth/Moon/Sun Demo - Tellurium
8A20.70 - Scale of the Earth/Sun/Moon System
8A20.80 - Tides - Moon or Spacecraft
8A20.90 - Tidal Heating
Views From Earth - 1
8A30.10 - The Horizon - Estimating the Distance to the Horizon
8A30.30 - Retrograde Motion of Inner Planets Demo
8A30.32 - Retrograde Motion
8A30.40 - Zodiacal Light
8A30.45 - Distortion due to Refraction
8A30.50 - Synodic Period
8A30.70 - Parallax
8A30.80 - Auto-resonance
8A30.90 - Roche Limit
Views From Earth - 2
8A35.10 - Celestial Sphere
8A35.20 - Armillary Sphere
8A35.30 - Satellite Orbits
Planetary Properties 1: Subheading - Globes, Hemispheres, & Maps
8A40.05 - Maps
8A40.10 - Globes, Planets, and Satellites
Planetary Properties 2: Subheading - The Planets
8A50.10 - Mercury
8A50.12 - Mercury's Orbit
8A50.15 - Perihelion of Mercury
8A50.20 - Venus
8A50.30 - Earth
8A50.34 - Geological Timeline and Fossils - Earth
8A50.35 - The Moon
8A50.36 - The Moon's Orbit
8A50.37 - Lunar Missions
8A50.38 - Moonquakes
8A50.39 - The Moon's Offset Center-of-Mass
8A50.40 - Mars
8A50.41 - Mars Missions, Orbital Timing
8A50.42 - Aerobraking at Mars
8A50.45 - Mars' Moons
8A50.50 - Jupiter
8A50.55 - Jupiter's Moons/Galilean Satellites
8A50.60 - Saturn
8A50.65 - Saturn's Moons
8A50.70 - Uranus
8A50.75 - Uranus' Moons
8A50.80 - Neptune
8A50.85 - Neptune's Moons & Triton's Liq. N2 Geysers
Planetary Properties 3: Subheading - Planetoids, Minor Objects
8A60.10 - Minor Planets and Pluto/Charon
8A60.25 - Asteroids
8A60.30 - Meteorites
8A60.33 - Tektites
8A60.35 - Meteors
8A60.40 - Outer Solar System Objects
8A60.50 - The Kuiper Belt
8A60.60 - Extrasolar Planets
8A60.65 - Habitable Zone
8A60.70 - Matter from Outside Our Solar System
Planetary Properties 4: Subheading - Planetary Characteristics
4B70.23 - Cloud Formation by Cooling
4B70.25 - Cloud in a Bottle
6A40.47 - Refraction - Twinkling Planets and Stars
6F40.10 - Distortion due to Atmospheric Scattering - Reddening Due to Atmospheric Scattering or Interstellar Dust
8A70.05 - Geological Samples
8A70.06 - Refractory Minerals
8A70.10 - Planetary Magnetism
8A70.20 - Earth's Atmosphere
8A70.22 - Sounding Balloon Experiment
8A70.25 - Earth - Climate Change
8A70.30 - Transient Luminous Emissions - Sprites, Jets, and Elves
8A70.35 - Lightening Whistlers
8A70.40 - The Greenhouse Effect
8A70.45 - Cloud Formation - Smog
8A70.52 - Planetary Atmosphere Models
8A70.55 - Rotational Banding/Planetary Atmospheres
8A70.60 - Precipitation in the Solar System
8A70.65 - Aurora
8A70.75 - Gaseous Planets - Atmospheres
8A70.77 - Planetary Cores
8A70.78 - Planetary Gravities
8A70.80 - Red Hot Ball - Planetary Temperatures
8A70.82 - Protoplanets and Planetshine
8A70.85 - Earthquake Model
8A70.87 - Tectonic Plates
8A70.90 - Crater Formation
Planetary Properties 5: Subheading - Comets and the Search for Life
8A80.10 - Make a Comet
8A80.15 - Comets
8A80.30 - Halley's Comet
8A80.40 - Comet Hale-Bopp
8A80.90 - The Creating of Life in the Classroom
8A80.92 - Pond Scum
8A80.95 - Life On Other Planets
Stellar Astronomy
The Sun
8B10.10 - The Sun
8B10.20 - Solar Constant
8B10.22 - Solar Energy
8B10.24 - Solar Luminosity
8B10.30 - Sun - Surface Temperature
8B10.35 - The Sun's Size
8B10.40 - Convection Cells or Rayleigh-Benard Cell
8B10.50 - Sunspots
8B10.55 - Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
8B10.60 - Random Walk
8B10.70 - Solar Oscillations
8B10.80 - Stellar Fusion - Nuclear Fusion Model
8B10.90 - The Poynting-Robertson Effect
Stellar Spectra
8B20.10 - Stellar Spectra
8B20.20 - Doppler Effect and Stellar Spectra
8B20.40 - Gamma Rays
Stellar Evolution
1Q40.22 - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Hoberman Sphere
8B30.10 - Stellar Magnitude
8B30.20 - HR Diagram
8B30.30 - Stellar Lifecycle
8B30.35 - Binary Star System - Eclipsing Binary or Trinary
8B30.40 - Variable Stars - Cepheid Variable Stars
8B30.45 - Supernova and Novae
8B30.50 - Supernova Core Bounce
8B30.60 - Neutron Stars
8B30.65 - Pulsar Demo
8B30.70 - Sounds of Pulsars
8B30.72 - X-Ray Pulsars
8B30.75 - White Dwarfs
8B30.80 - Brown Dwarf
8B30.85 - Red Giants
8B30.90 - Nebula
8B30.95 - Forward, Backward, and Side Scattering - Zodiacal Light
Black Holes
8B40.10 - Black Holes
8B40.11 - Black Hole "Earth"
8B40.20 - Black Hole Surface - Fiberglass or Plastic
8B40.30 - Membrane Table
8B40.40 - Gravity Well - Black Hole
8B40.50 - Magnetic Field Coupling
Stellar Miscellaneous
8B50.10 - Local Star Map - Cosmic Neighborhood
8B50.15 - Fast Moving Stars
8B50.30 - Interferometry
8B50.45 - Hydrostatic Equilibrium
8B50.60 - Lookback Time
8B50.70 - Olber's Paradox
8B50.80 - Gamma Ray Bursts
Cosmology
Models of the Universe
8C10.05 - Cosmological Models
8C10.10 - The Big Bang
8C10.20 - Cosmic Microwave Background
8C10.25 - Steady State, Expanding, Contracting Universe
8C10.30 - Expanding Universe
8C10.39 - Expanding Universe
8C10.50 - Galaxies - 1000 Megaparsecs
8C10.52 - Milky Way Galaxy
8C10.55 - View of the Galactic Center from a Spiral Arm
8C10.60 - Galaxy Model/Spiral Galaxies
8C10.70 - Radio Galaxies
8C10.75 - AGN - Active Galactic Nuclei
8C10.76 - Galaxy Halo
8C10.80 - One Million Galaxies
8C10.90 - Globular Clusters
Gravitational Effects
8C20.10 - Klein Bottle
8C20.20 - Moebius Strip
8C20.25 - Lagrange Point - Lagrangian Location
8C20.30 - Saddle Shape
8C20.35 - Non-Euclidean Geometry
8C20.40 - Gravitational Lens
8C20.50 - Cosmic Web, Gravitational Waves - LIGO
8C20.53 - Gravity Sandbox
8C20.55 - Gravitational Waves - Spiraling Black Holes
8C20.60 - Quasars
8C20.70 - Cosmic Strings
8C20.80 - Dark Matter
8C20.90 - Dark Energy
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Astronomy
8D10.10 - Astrophotography
8D10.20 - Daytime Observations
8D10.30 - Tossing on a Rotating Space Station - ISS Gravity
8D10.50 - Astronaut Training
8D10.80 - Space Debris
Telescopes
8D20.10 - Radio Telescopes
8D20.20 - Microwave Telescopes
8D20.30 - Infrared Telescopes
8D20.40 - Optical Telescopes
8D20.45 - Solar Telescope
8D20.47 - Hubble Space Telescope - HST, and James Webb Space Telescope
8D20.50 - UV Telescopes
8D20.60 - X-Ray Telescopes
8D20.70 - Gamma Ray Telescopes
Astronomical Instruments
8D30.10 - Satellite Models - Van Allen Satellite Model
8D30.20 - Spacecraft Models
8D30.50 - Satellites
8D30.55 - Space Shuttle Tiles - Space Shuttle
8D30.57 - Aerogel
8D30.60 - Spacecraft
8D30.70 - Slingshot Effect - Gravity Assist
Astronomy Teaching Techniques
Techniques and Projects
8E30.05 - Two Films - Astronomy Knowledge
8E30.10 - Teaching Astronomy With Games
8E30.20 - Build an Observational Astronomy Program
8E30.30 - Teaching with Astronomical Catalogues
8E30.40 - Using Space to Teach Physics