Ms. Fitzpatrick

SES 4U Links - HWK

Unit One: Earth as a Planet

On this page you will find links to be used as both in-class and homework 
assignments.  Many of the sites have excellent diagrams that will be used in 
class and can be copied or printed to add to your notes.

Epicycles - animation
http://www.jimloy.com/cindy/ptolemy.htm

More animations - epicycles
http://www.phas.ucalgary.ca/physlets/ptolemy.htm

Mars Retrograde Motion Animation (NASA site)
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/allabout/nightsky/nightsky04-2003animation.html

Mars Retrograde Motion Animation
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/projects/data/Retrograde/

Mars Retrograde motion
This is a good one!
http://www.lasalle.edu/~smithsc/Astronomy/retrograd.html

Planet Quest (NASA)
Search for extrasolar planets
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

The Kepler Mission
Search for extrasolar planets
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/Kepler/kepler_index.cfm

Hubble images and videos
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2001/20/video/

The Sun - video
http://www.coastlearning.org/courses/course.php?cid=31

Parallax video !
http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Movies/parallax.html

Parallaz animation 2
http://www.astronexus.com/3duniv/contents/img/anim/paranim.gif

4/24 Star Properites
http://skyserver.sdss.org/edr/en/proj/advanced/hr/

4/26
Fusion Basics
http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/content/fusion1.html

4/27
This excellent website was prepared by the University of Colorado. It has 
detailed information about quantum physics and is particularly good on 
electromagnetism.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/wpwaves5.html

4/27
This is a particularly rich site for high school students. It discusses
Einstein, Newton, the theory of relativity and deals with ideas in a non-
technical way.
http://csep10.physics.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/einstein.html

4/27
This site, prepared by the University of Illinois has fascinating information 
about Cosmology and Einstein's physics. The illustrations are particularly 
interesting.
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Cosmos/CosmicMysteryTour.html

Earth's Motion
This website will give you simple, easy-to-draw diagrams for yoor notes.
http://daphne.palomar.edu/jthorngren/tutorial.htm

Visualization
Check out the animations of Earth's rotation and revolution.  
(We will refer to this site for other visualizations later in the course)
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/visualization.cfm

Other Resources

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