Supplemental Notes and References
John M. Dickey
1. Links to useful web pages:
Fall 2003 syllabus
Special for October 2003: Links to class notes for days when AFSCME workers were picketing the University are here.
Everything that is on the cdrom is available
from the WWNorton home page for our textbook. Start
at :
Bennett
et al. 2nd edition
2. Some images which I showed in Lecture :
Telescope Images : go
to telescope images
Images of the Earth interior, atmosphere, etc :
Go
to earth images link.
go
to atmosphere images link.
go
to moon and mercury images and links.
Go
to Venus and Mars images page.
These and many more superb images of the planets are
available from the NSSDC : Go
to the NSSDC photo gallery of the solar system.
Go
to the Giant Planets page (Jupiter and Saturn).
Go
to just Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
the
Sun lecture notes
go
to galaxies link
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3. Links to useful applets (interactive demo programs)
:
A NASA applet to help you find artificial satellites like
the space station, space shuttle,
HST, Chandra Observatory, and many more : go
to JPass.
The most recent images of the earth from space (mainly
for weather prediction for
North America) are posted at : go
to Current Satellite Photos.
These come from NOAA, which posts recent US mosaics at
lower resolution at: go
to NOAA GOES 8/10 composite images.
Data for Europe and Africa are at : go
to EUmetsat
and for Asia and the Pacific at : go
to BoM Australia.
and here is a site with very nice global movies : go
to Wisconsin global mosaics.
The most recent images of the sun from various spacecraft
and ground-based observatories
are linked at : go
to the Latest Images of the Sun. This
site also has links to the latest data on
aurora, coronal mass ejections, and the solar wind.
The basics of conservation of energy are presented on the high school level : go to The Energy Story
Here is a great NASA image "exchange" or library of astronomical
images with search engine : go
to NASA Image Exchange (NIX).
Kepler's Laws animations :
go
to Kepler's Laws simulator from NASA
go
to Northwestern's Keplers Laws applet
go
to Surendranath Kepler's Laws applet
but if you really prefer Ptolemy's system you can try
go
to epicycles demo
A tutorial on orbital motion and space flight with animations
and multiple choice
"tests" provided by NASA JPL is at : go
to Basics of Space Flight.
General Physics/Astronomy applet collections:
A multilingual collection from Germany is at : go to Walter Fendt's collection.
A large menu of applets to play with : go to General Physics Applets
here's a nice force and orbit applet : http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles
and in the same series, here is a nice presentation of
spectral lines of various elements : go
to Colorado Spectral Lines and another on wavelength vs.
frequency : go
to Colorado speed of light page.
Here is their table of contents : go
to Colorado Science Trek.
Another spectral lines web site with very nice graphics on the lighter elements is at : go to jtalbot's spectra.
"Physlets", a set of physics demonstration applets, is at : go to Physlets one good one in particular is the Black Body demo : go to black body physlet
A great "cosmic zoom" is at : go to florida zoom which is part of a a collection by Paul Falstad that includes a nice kinetic theory applet. Another nice kinetic applet is at go to model atmosphere applet. This is one of a collection from UCI : go to chem UC Irvine applets.
Here's a NASA rotatable solar system : go to interactive solar system
For physics majors, here's a great Schroedinger's Equation
applet from karlsruhe : go
to Schroedinger's Equation.
Applet Link collections :
Here's a Dutch collection of classified links : go to planetinternet collection.
A good page of links to various applets for physics and astronomy : go to Physics Java Applets (UW Stout)
A nice collection by Fu-Kwun Hwang in Taiwan : go to NTNU physics collection.
Here's a small collection of physics applets with nice graphics : go to Saygi's interactive physics.
This is a rather large collection of simple, easy to run physics applets : go to MSU physics applets
An extensive catalog of links is tip top virtual laboratory.
The Italian virtual science museum is go to Leonardo.
Here's a list of applets from Reed College (some are Java 1.1.2) go to Reed Phys100 applet links.
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