Astronomy

Support Equipment

8 -00.00 - Support Equipment used for Astronomy

Measurement

1A10.41? - Geochron
1A60.10 - Powers of Ten - ref. Mechanics

Motion in Two Dimensions

1D55.17 - Escape Velocity (Escape from a Gravity Well)

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

3B45.13 - Shock Wave Fronts - Hydraulic Jump
2C40.90 - Shock Wave Fronts - Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Heat and the First Law

4B50.60 - The Greenhouse Effect

Kinetic Theory

4D50.45 - Diffusion of Bromine

Photometry

6B10.25 - Wein's Law - Planetary Sunlight Intensity
6B40.10 - Variac and Light Bulb
6B40.55 - Spectrum vs. Temperature

Kirchoff's Law and Spectroscopy

7B10.10 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Emission Lines
7B10.11 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Gas Discharge
7B10.20 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Mercury Emission Lines
7B11.15 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Sodium Absorption
7B11.50 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Flame Salts - ref. Astronomy
7B11.60 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Glo-doodler - ref. Astronomy
7B11.65 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Rare Earths, Didymium Glass - ref. Astronomy
7B11.75 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Chlorophyll
7B11.80 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Food Coloring
7B11.85 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Copper Compounds - "Vanish"

Superstring Theory

8-mani - 4 Manifold and Calabi - Yau

Planetary Astronomy

Solar System Mechanics

8A05.30 - Eratosthenes' Measurement
8A05.40 - Kepler's Laws
8A10.01 - Historical Astronomy
8A10.02 - Sextants
8A10.03 - Artificial Horizon
8A10.04 - Chronometer
8A10.05 - Stonehenge
8A10.10 - Planetarium / Orrery
8A10.17? - Analemma
8A10.18? - Circular Sundial
8A10.19? - Sunrise - Sunset
8A10.22? - Aurora
8A10.24 - The Moon
8A10.25 - Lunar Phases - Terminator Line Demo
8A10.30 - Eclipse Models and Umbra/Penumbra Demos
8A10.32 - Earth/Moon/Sun Demo
8A 10.33?- Eclipse - Eclipse Model
8A10.33a? - Eclipse - Solar Eclipse
8A10.33b? - Eclipse - Lunar
8A10.34? - Origin of the Solar System
8A10.35? - Scale of the Earth/Sun/Moon System
8A10.37 - Scale Model Demos of the Solar System
8A10.55 - Retrograde Motion of Inner Planets Demo
8A10.70 - Transit - Mercury & Venus
8A10.80 - Celestial Sphere

Planetary Geology

8A20.00 - Planetary Geology
8A20.01 - Mercury
8A20.02 - Venus
8A20.03 - Earth
8A20.04 - Mars
8A20.04a - Mars' Moons
8A20.05 - Jupiter
8A20.05a - Jupiter's Moons / Galilean Satellites
8A20.06 - Saturn
8A20.06a - Saturn's Moons
8A20.07 - Uranus
8A20.07a - Uranus' Moon's
8A20.08 - Neptune
8A20.08a - Neptune's Moons
8A20.09 - Pluto / Charon
8A20.09a - Outer Solar System Objects
8A20.10 - Globes, Planets and Satellites
8A20.12 - Planetary Magnetism
8A20.14? - Albedo
8A20.15 - Geological Timeline - Earth
8A20.22 - Eccentricity of the Moon's Orbit
8A20.25? - Gaseous Planets
8A20.27 - Rotational Banding
8A20.28 - Tektites
8A20.29? - Meteorites
8A20.30 - Crater Formation
8A20.41 - Comets and Asteroids
8A20.45? - The Kuiper Belt
8A20.55 - Geological Samples - ref. Chem. & Physics of E. E.
8A20.55? - IR Telescope Model
8A20.60 - Earth/Moon Distance - Lunar Retroreflector
8A20.70? - Tectonic Plates - ref. Chem. & Physics of E. E.
6A40.47 - Refraction - Twinkling Planets and Stars
6A42.42? - Refracted Sun
6F40.10 - Distortion due to Atmospheric Scattering - ref. Optics
8A30.10 - The Horizon
8A30.15? - Distortion due to Refraction
4D50.42 - Cloud Formation
8A30.25 - Planetary Atmospheres
4B70.23 - Cloud Formation by Cooling - ref. Heat & Fluids
4B70.25 - Cloud in a Bottle
8A30.30? - Lightening Whistlers
8A30.90? - The Creating of Life in the Classroom
8A35.35 - Van Allen Satellite Orbit Model, Satellite's, Satellite Models
8A35.40 - Iowa Spacecraft and Instrumentation Packages
8A60.60 - Extra Solar Planets
8A70.30 - Sprites
8A70.41 - Infrared Radiation - Planetary Temperature
8A70.80 - Red Hot Ball
8A70.85 - Earthquake Model - ref. Chem. & Physics of E. E.

Stellar Astronomy

Miscellaneous

8B10.00 - The Sun
8B10.02 - Parallax
8B10.05 - Stellar Fusion - Nuclear Fusion Model
8B10.10 - Binary Star System
8B10.30 - Sunspots
8B10.31 - Convection Cells or Rayleigh-Bernard Cells
8B10.32? - Solar Oscillations
8B10.33? - Poynting-Robertson Effect
8B10.35 - Random Walk
8B10.37 - Magnetic Field Coupling
8B10.40 - Forward, Backward, and Side Scattering
8B10.50 - Supernova Core Bounce
8B10.60 - Sounds of Pulsars
8B10.65 - Pulsar Demo
8B20.10 - Nebula
8B20.40 - Gamma Rays
1Q40.22 - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Hoberman Sphere - ref. Mechanics
1L20.10 - Gravity Well - Black Hole - ref. Mechanics

STELLAR EVOLUTION

8B30.20 - HR diagram
8B30.35 - Eclipsing Binary Star System
8B30.45 - Supernova
8B30.40 - Variable Stars
8B30.58 - Radio Telescopes
8B30.60 - Neutron Stars
8B50.15 - Local Star Map - Cosmic Neighborhood

Cosmology

Models of the Universe

8C10.10 - Steady State, Expanding, Contracting Universe
8C10.15 - Expanding Universe
8C10.25 - View of the Galactic Center from a Spiral Arm
8C10.31? - One Million Galaxies
8C10.32? - Globular Clusters
8C10.35? - Spiral Galaxies
8C10.37? - Radio Galaxies
8C10.40 - Klein Bottle
8C10.50 - Milky Way Galaxy Model
8C10.85 - Galaxies - 1000 Megaparsecs

Black Holes

8C20.10 - Black Hole - Gravitational Lens
8C20.35 - Non-Euclidean Geometry
8C20.40 - Gravitational Lens
8C20.50 - Dark Matter - Cosmic Web, Gravitational Waves
8C20.60 - Quasars
8C20.80 - Dark Matter

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