Re: [Phys-L] astronomy activities

["Strickert, Rick" <rstrickert@signaturescience.com>]

How about building and demonstrating a Foucault pendulum to show the effect of Earth's rotation on its axis?  Here are some links about making a Foucault pendulum:
"School Foucault pendulum"  (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266563268_School_Foucault_pendulum)
"A Foucault’s pendulum design" (http://www.foucaultpendulum.nl/Foucault/Theory-files/Salva.pdf)
Phys-L has had other links on Foucault's pendulum (https://www.phys-l.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=Foucault+Pendulum).

Rick Strickert


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Subject: [Phys-L] astronomy activities

Teaching astronomy (high school) next year. I have some traditional/observing labs for Polaris altitude, gravity, circular motion, spectra, telescopes, magnetism, Moon, sunspots, parallax, inverse-square law, etc. Wanting some labs for the solar system and cosmology topics.
These are less tangible.

Observe any visible planets over a few weeks?
Hubble law analogy?

Other ideas?

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