THE
PHYSICS ZONE
EARTH IN SPACE
Earthview - a website which lets you observe the earth from above at different times and places - good for grade 8 and above.
Length of day - A shockwave program which lets you see the length of the day in the northern hemisphere for different times of the year- good for grade 8 and above.
The seasons - a website showing the position of the earth at different times of the year. - good for grade 8 and above
The seasons 2 - a website showing the angle the sun hits ate different months.- good for grade 8 and above.
Tides - A website showing tides, including spring an neap tides. -good for grade 8 and above.
Solar eclipses - A program showing the position of the moon and the sun and what the eclipse looks like. good for grade 8 and above
Size of our world - a webpage showing the relative size of planets and stars.
Solar System Data Base . Click on a planet and find out all about it - good for grade 8 and above
Google Earth - a website which lets you zoom into any location on earth from space - good for grade 6 and above.
Powers of 10 - a site which enables you to move away from the earth and into cells a power of 10 at a time - good for grade 8 and above.
Powers of 10(2) - a java applet version of the original idea - takes a while to load, but is good - good for grade 8 and above.
Phases of the moon - Click on Demonstration of moon phases for the required program - good for grade 8 and above.
Phases of the moon 2 -Another web site showing the phases of the moon - good for grade 8 and above.
Phases of the moon 3 -Another web site showing the phases of the moon - good for grade 8 and above.
Planet 10 - a shockwave program that enables you to explore the solar system and build your own planet - good for grade 8 and above.
Hubble telescope - the NASA hubble telescope page -Excellent explore astronomy andlinks to loads of good photos etc. - good for grade 8 and above.
Astronomy picture of the day - just as it says - good for grade 6 and above.
Sun Shadow - a java applet showing a sundial for anywhere on earth at any time - good for year 6 (supervised) and above.
The Greenhouse effect - A program which enables you to see why the earth's temperature will change - good for grade 9 and above .
Milky way - A 3D model of the milky way that you can move around - good for grade 8 and above.
Stellar parallax - a program which illustrates stella parallax - good for grade 12 and above.
Dynamic pertubation of stars a small program showing how new planets are discovered from their spectrum - good for grade 12
Why is the sky dark at night - a good site explaining Olber's paradox - good for grade 12
Escape velocity - A shockwave program showing a cannon's kinetic energy as it leaves a planet - good for grade 11
Measure the parallax of a few stars - Using the images provided, find the parallax angle and calculate the distance to two nearby stars.- good for grade 12
Parallax demo - A java applet demostrating parallax of stars - good for grade 12