Ms. Fitzpatrick

SES 4U Links Unit 4 Motion

Earth as a Planet - homework Links

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.

Each link and assignment is dated so that you know which one to do for each 
day.  However, feel free to get a preview of what is to come in the course.

11/10
Apollo feather and hammer drop experiment.
Still don't beleive that a feather and a hammer would hit the ground at the 
same time if dropped from the same height (in the absence of air 
resistence)?  Watch this video and see it with your own eyes!
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_15_feather_drop.html

Magellan Aerospace
http://www.magellanaerospace.com/

11/10
Sir Isaac Newton: The Universal Law of Gravitation
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newtongrav.html

11/10
Moon Tides  
How The Moon Affects Ocean Tides... 
There are a few good diagrams and animations to check out on this site.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/

11/10
Bay of Fundy Tides
(Okay, so your teacher is somewhat biassed!)
http://www.thehopewellrocks.ca/english/fundytides2.htm

11/10
Tide animation
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/images/missingtides/dissipation.gif

11/12
Satellite Images of the change of seasons.
Check out these great images of the equinoxes and solstices.
http://earth.ast.smith.edu/james/a111/seasons.html

11/10
Winter solstice animation
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/6hwinter.html

11/10
Summer Solstice animation
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/6hsummer.html

11/12
Equinox Animation
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/6hequinox.html

11/12
Vernal and autumnal equinox - animation
This site is designed for younger students but it has a great animation that 
explains the revolution of the Earth and its orbit around the sun.
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/News/2000/News-AutumnalEquinox.asp

11/12
Earth's Seasons
Equinoxes, Solstices, Perihelion, and Aphelion 1992-2020
Wondering exactly when the next equinox is?  Check out this site!
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.html

11/12
Earth-Sun Geometry
Here is a site with fairly good background reading to support our study or 
the Earth's REvolution around the sun.  Many of the diagrams used in class 
can be found here.
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/6h.html

Geocentric model of the solar system - animation
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~zhu/ast210/geocentric.html

Heliocentric model of the solar system - animation
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~zhu/ast210/helicentric.html

Comparing Geocentric and Heliocentric models
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~zhu/ast210/both.html

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