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 Alien EyesOnline interactive game on parallax and vision through the eyes of an alien.
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Parallax This lab activity explores the concept of parallax to determine distances to an object. How does the baseline affect parallax and what are the limits of parallax?
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| Determining Astronomical Distance Scale Tutorial and online lab. Take notes and do the exercises as you go. Click to open the virtual laboratory frameset at the bottom of the page and then choose "Labs for Semester 2" and then "Lab 4: Determining Astronomical Distance Scales" from the menu on the right. Print out the answer sheet . |
| Activity 8: Trigonometric Parallax A lab activity to apply your knowledge of parallax in determining distances. |
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| ACTIVITIES on Brightness and Magnitude | |
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Why does the world gets dark so fast outside the circle of the campfire? Lab investigating the change in the area covered and brightness of a light source with distance. More Inverse Square LawJava applet on the inverse square law - you can take and plot data. Distances---Inverse Square LawRead and answer the questions at the end. Magnitude SystemRead and answer the questions at the end. Magnitude and Parallax ReviewAnswer questions on pages 3B, C and D of Milliken Publishing's "The Universe". |
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