PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Outline of the Course with Web Links

Go to:

I. What Science Is

II. Modeling the Solar System

1	http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Orbits/ptolemy.gif	A diagram of Ptolemy’s System
2	http://www.pd.astro.it/hosted/PlanetV/planetarium/L14_01S.html	Kepler’s First Law of Planetary Motion
3	http://www.pd.astro.it/hosted/PlanetV/planetarium/L14_02S.html	Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion
4	http://www.pd.astro.it/hosted/PlanetV/planetarium/L14_03S.html	Kepler’s Third Law of Planetary Motion
5	http://www.pd.astro.it/hosted/PlanetV/planetarium/L14_04S.html	Some extra material including an interesting demonstration of the size of the earth compared with the size of its orbit
6	http://home.cvc.org/science/kepler.htm http://javalab.uoregon.edu/dcaley/kepler/Kepler.html http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/LivingMathematics/V001N01/UBCExamples/Kepler/kepler.html	Kepler’s Laws with animation
	http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/	At the upper link you can play with near-earth asteroid orbits. Just click on the name of an asteroid, and then you can run its orbit many years into the future. These orbits obey Kepler’s Laws except when there is a close encounter with a planet. The lower link is to the home page of the Near Earth Orbit site.

III. How Planets Move (Laws of Motion)

1	http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/u2l1a.html	Descriptions, Explanations, and Statements of Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
2	http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_laws_of_motion
3	http://www.jracademy.com/~mbasteaf/newton/

IV. A Quick Trip Around the Universe

V. Beginnings of Nuclear and Modern Physics

VI. Nuclear Fundamentals

http://education.jlab.org/atomtour/index.html

A description of Protons and Neutrons and what they are made of

A table of chemical elements (the periodic table) – click on an element to find out about it

A glossary of mostly nuclear terms

1	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/mapablast.html	A nuclear explosion simulator - pick a location, pick a bomb size, and display the areas of damage.
2	http://www-sdc.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/n50/start-E.html	Effects of the nuclear explosion at Nagasaki
3	http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/4526/index1.html	How do you build an atom bomb, and what does it do?
4	http://www.atomicarchive.com/index.shtml	A history of the making of the atomic bomb.

1	http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm	A description of nuclear power plants with links to more information
2	http://www.nrc.gov/reactors.html	Information from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on how nuclear power plants are regulated
3	http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2001_10/bunnoct01.asp	An essay on protecting nuclear reactors from terrorists
4	http://www.uic.com.au/nip14.htm http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/nuclear_safety/index.cfm?pageID=25	Two different views of nuclear reactor safety. The upper link contains another link to a list of energy-related accidents including nuclear accidents and other types of energy-related accidents.
5	http://www.mapscience.org/ http://www.ymp.gov/ http://www.yuccamountain.org/ http://www.em.doe.gov/em30/waststor.html http://www.sierraclub.org/nuclearwaste/	Various views about transporting and storing nuclear waste. The top link leads to maps of transportation routes. The second and fourth links are US government sites supporting the government’s waste programs. The third and fifth links are critical of these programs.