Jayanne English's Homepage

Supplemental Materials for PHYS1810 and PHYS1830 (Dr. Jayanne English)

Course website: PHYS 1810: http://www.physics.umanitoba.ca/~english/2014fallphys1810/
Continually check the course website for updates about, for example, test reviews, topics, and schedules.

This Page Updated: Oct 28, 2014.

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Supplemental Resources List

Visualization Websites:
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
  Many images used in the class come from this site. Check the archive.
• List of other astronomy imaging websites.
• Dr English's Visualization website.
• Why some HST images have a chevron shape.

Powers of Ten
• - Movie Website and an interactive tool
• - More details at this site
• A contemporary Powers of Ten Movie from the American Museum of Natural History
• Interactive scales tool. Caution - there is no edge or centre to the universe.
• Interactive scales tool - version 2. Caution - there is no edge or centre to the universe.
• Important!Formula sheet "handout" for using powers of ten.
• "Astronomical" by Mishka Henner. A book representing scale of the solar system.
• The BBC's infographic. Follow the link to their very good indication of scale in our solar system.
• Interactive visualization of the solar system against the celestial sphere - solar system scope.
• Has Voyager left the solar system?

Scientific Method, etc.
• Nobel Prize in Physics 2009
  For the CCD!
  Boyle, one of the developers, was born in Canada and retired to Halifax. Here's some comments in the Globe and Mail.
• Quotes from Feynman & Leibniz on scientific method. (pdf format)
• The Feynman Series Check out "Beauty". This is part of the YouTube Sagan Series channel.
• The Sagan Series

Gravity:
• Watch a feather and hammer land at the same time in a vacuum.
• Spacetime Fabric by Dr. Cox
  
• Tides Explained Video
• Earth's orbit and how that effects what we see on the sky.

Electromagnetic Radiation:
• EM propogation:
  - Animation of perpendicular waves.
  
• Diffraction:
  - Bending of plane waves as they are passed through a single slit.
  
• Interference Patterns:
  - In a ripple tank. Full experimental explanation.
  - In a ripple tank. Just the pattern.
  - Interference pattern using light. (Duality)
  - Interference with electrons. By Dr. Quantum. Good illustrations of the double slit experiment
• Thermal Radiation:
  Table of Objects with Black Body emission. Note that Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) should be listed in the gamma-ray section. Also cold neutral hydrogen gas should be listed in the radio section.

Computer Simulations
• Interaction of 2 Galaxies --> match The Mice observations. J. Barnes & J. Hibbard.
• Interactions of Galaxies in a Cluster. Gravitas project on galaxy dynamics. J. Dubinski.
• Cosmological Simulation. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) flucuations evolve into Large Scale Structure - bottom of page. Paul Bode
• Interacting Galaxies interactive simulation. Follow the creation of arm structure in a galaxy.
• Solar System Formation Animation NASA. NASA/JPL narration about solar system formation. T. Pyle
• Solar System Formation Animation Swinburne. Swinburne Astronomy Online animation of solar system formation.
• Animation of Spiral Planetary Disk.

Planets and moons:
• NEO 2012 DA 14 Close approach Feb 15, 2013
  - animation
  - article
  
• Asteroid YU55:
  - Trail of YU55 taken by our Year 2 PHYS2070 class
  - NASA movie of asteroid.
  
• Planet Definition
  
• Factors impacting a planet's atmosphere. Check out the last item on the page, which is an applet. (The King's Centre for Visualization in Science.)
• Climate Change: See schematic of amount of radiation recirculated by Earth's atmosphere.
• 2013 Team Saturn's Links!(doc)
  
• Mars: Spectacular images
  
  • Seven Minutes of Terror
  • Mars Express
  • NASA Worldbook for Mars
  • Google Mars
  • HiWish - suggest target for HiRISE on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
  • Be a Martian
• Sounds of Titan. Check out the microphones on Huygens as it descends through Titan's atmosphere.

Planet Hunting:
• Exoplanet Catalog Website
• Radial Velocity Method animation
• Transit Method animation

Sun:
• A Photon's Random Walk Through the Sun
• Spicules on the sun.
• An app for daily views of the solar atmosphere for your smart phone
• Partial Solar Eclipse Oct. 23, 2014 by Jeffrey W. Greeniaus, Calgary.

Stars and their formation, ISM:
• I'm going to be a star!: fun star formation article from The Onion.
• ISM information
  

Exploding Stars:
• Scenario for forming SN1987A
  
• Quark Novae website
  
• PHYS 1810 Lecture on Supernovae by Dr. Harsha Kumar Nov 21, 2013
  

Black Holes:
• Spotlight Live: Falling Into a Black Hole Live webcast at 2pm Wed Sept 25.
• Types of Black Holes (pdf)
  
• Jets, accretion disk, mechanical energy transport via magnetic fields.
• Gas cloud that will be swallowed by Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole in 2013 This is a news video which also shows observations.
  
• Gas cloud that will be swallowed by Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole in 2013. Computer Simulation.
  

Galaxies & Cosmology:
• Evolution of Galaxies Question (pdf)
  
• Peebles description of the Big Bang(pdf)
  

Myths:
• Crop Circles
  • Circle Makers Site
  • Circle Makers Guide
  • Magicial Brian Brushwood's Lecture on Crop Circles
  • 3 hour documentary on YouTube
  • Part 18/18 of the documentary - nice footage of crop circlemakers working.
  • Matthew Williams who was convicted of making crop circles.
• Man on the Moon
  • Mythbusters
  • LRO images of Apollo 11 landing site.
  • Point by point rebuttal to Fox TV program.
• Doomsday 2012
  • 2012 Defense Kit by Krupp, Sky and Telescope.
  • Point by point rebuttal by David Morrison, Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
  • NASA Near Earth Object Program rebuttal.
  • Dr. English on Friday Nov 13th "The Drive" with Laurie Langcastor CJOB.


• NEO DA14:
  • Slooh Camera(s). Real time tracking.
  • NASA feed. Directed at Media.
  • NASA TV. For the public.
  • Clay Observatory feed. Public. 6pm EST.
  • NASA NEO info. Directed at public.
  • NEO 2012 DA 14 Close approach Feb 15, 2013 Info
    - animation
    - article
  • Russian Meteor It is not DA 14
  • Russian Meteor Reuters News

Study and Practise -- math:

• Want to test your basic skills in algebra and fractions? Try these SAT practice tests.
• IXL interactive practise with ratio s -- grade 7. Also try grade 9.
• Khan Academy Free video lessons for solving equations, ratios, etc.
• Example of conversion: How many Angstroms = 1 nanometre?
• Order of Magnitude: How much larger is the Sun than the Darth?
• Star Trails: How much time has elapsed?

Citzen Science:

• Cosmoquest. Check out the Do Science and Science Academy menus.
• Zooniverse. Check out the Galaxy Zoo for example.
• Astronomy Apps for your smart phone.
• The Globe at Night.
• The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Winnpeg.

More Astronomy Information Links:

• Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) Education website.
• 25 Amazing Astronomy Resources.