1 A Brief History of Solar-Terrestrial Physics,
by Chris Russell (see here
for Figure 1.17)
1a. Map of magnetic
declination and magnetic
inclination (dip angle)
1b. Auroral zone
2 Solar Superstorms, by Odenwald
and Greene
2a. Carrington's
flare
2b. Sunspots
and the solar
cycle by SEC
2c. Galaxy 4
pager satellite dies
3 The
Magnetosphere (1) (also read 1H "History, Gilbert")
Magnetic
Fields (2) (also read 2H "History, Oersted")
The Polar
Aurora (3) (also read
3H, 3a, 3b, 3c, "History")
The Sun (16)
(also read 16H, 16a, 16b,
"History")
3a. How to be a comet hunter
3b. Earth's
atmosphere
3c. LASCO C2 image sequence 10 Apr 2001
- X2.3 flare and CME
3d. Current auroral oval - from
NOAA
Part
Two - Nuclear Fusion - Handout
- Writing Tips
1 Nuclear Fusion, by
Reynolds
1a. Intro to
Particle Physics, by
Reynolds
1b. The neutrino
2
How
the Sun Shines, by John Bahcall
2a. Luminous efficacy
3 Nuclear
fusion, from Hyperphysics
3a. Fusion
as an energy source, by Nuttall, Institute of Physics
Optional reading related to particle physics, fusion, and
radioactivity:
Interview
with Frank Close, author of "Antimatter"
Murray
Gell-Mann (discovered quarks) gives TED talk
Eddington's
table
The Atoms that Vanish, Chapter 1
of "Only a Trillion" by Isaac Asimov
Clocks
in the Rocks - Hyperphysics explanation of radioactive dating
methods (see Zircon)
The Helium
Monument and Time Capsule, Amarillo, TX
Part Three - The Solar Wind - Handout
1 The Solar
Wind (18), by David Stern (also re-read 16, and read 17, 18H, 18A,
18B)
1a. A tutorial
on spectra from the Univ of Oregon Astronomy class
1b. The solar
spectrum, along with that of Procyon and Arcturus (and here)
1b. Solar movies from the Big
Bear Solar Observatory
2 Interplanetary
Magnetic Field (18A), by David Stern
2a. A bar
magnet
2b. The Earth's
magnetic field (the magnetic north
pole)
2c. The solar
magnetic field - Parker spiral (and here)
3 Comets: SOHO
movie - 96/P Machholz and Neat
3a. Hale-Bopp
- two tails
3b. Ulysses satellite
3c. Genesis
measurement of isotopes in the solar wind
4 The
Heliosphere (18B), by David Stern
4a. Voyager 1
is near
the heliopause
4b. The Voyager web site - with videos
Part Four- The Earth's magnetosphere - Handout
1 Overview from The
Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere
The
Magnetosphere (1)
The Polar
Aurora (3)
Electrons
(4) - also read 4H.
Thomson 1896, discovery of the electron
Structure of
the Earth's magnetosphere (20)
The Tail of
the Magnetosphere (23)
2 Miscellaneous
Butterfly
migration
Movie
of Pressure and Magnetic field
Auroral zone
Mental Abilities Test
NASA Soho
movies
Soho
movie theater
Electromagnetic spectrum
Viewing the Sun
in H-alpha light - technical
details
Library of Congress classification
NASA's STEREO
mission - orbit
movies
Solar orbit
simulator (the wobble of the solar system barycenter)
The Singing
Sun - Stanford Solar Center
Dynamic periodic table
Information on plagiarism
Orbit diagrams for all asteroids
and comets
The Full Moon
atlas (orientation
map) Tour the moon with "Google
Moon"
New research on sunspots
Two interacting
galaxies
Powers of 10 ( movie
)
A collision
betwteen the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy
Mass measurements
by NIST
fundamental
units in the System International (SI)
A guide for
metric practice
Aristotle's
PHYSICS (or here)
The
Galileo Project
Newton's "Absolute
Space and Time
"
"Force"
by Wilczek
The end of the world at
CERN? No.
Discovery of
Elements 116 and 118
Fundamental
particles
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