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8.5 The Cosmic Engine

General information Models of the Universe The lives of stars
Electromagnetic radiation Influence of the Sun  

General information

The ever changing life of galaxies- webcast presentation by Dr Raffaella Morganti at the 2005 International Science School, The University of Sydney, available for modem or broadband
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/foundation/index_iss.html

Monsters lurking in the centre of galaxies- webcast of presentation by Dr Raffaella Morganti at the 2005 International Science School, The University of Sydney, available for modem or broadband
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/foundation/index_iss.html

8.3 Cosmic Engine - from Australian Telescope National Facility
http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/education/senior/cosmicengine/

COSMIC ENGINE - course notes from the Purplish Hue web site, St Francis Xavier's College, Hamilton, NSW
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~emeryrg/serv03.htm#8.5

8.5 THE COSMIC ENGINE - from Bob Emery, St Francis Xavier's College, Hamilton, NSW
http://webs.mn.catholic.edu.au/physics/emery/prelim_cosmic.htm

8.5 The Cosmic Engine - from HSC Physics, UNSW
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/hsc/hsc/cosmic.html

Astronomy - from the Australia Telescope National Facility
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/educate/teachers/

Astronomy Workshop Tools - from Douglas Hamilton, University of Maryland
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/AW/awtools.html

Stars and Galaxies - from Exploring Earth, McDougal Littell, Classzone
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/chapter28.cfm

Earth's Moon - from Exploring Earth, McDougal Littell, Classzone
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/chapter25.cfm

The Sun and the Solar System - from Exploring Earth, McDougal Littell, Classzone
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/chapter26.cfm

The Planets and the Solar System - from Exploring Earth, McDougal Littell, Classzone
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/chapter28.cfm

The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA)
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/asa_www/education.html

Universe!- An Education Forum exploring the horizons of space, time and matter - from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/

Astronomy 162: Introduction to Stellar, Galactic, & Extragalactic Astronomy - lecture notes and resources to accomapny this course from Ohio State University
http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162.html

Ionospheric Prediction Service: Interesting Facts and Educational Material - from The Australian Space Weather Agency
http://www.ips.gov.au/Educational

Gravitational Waves: A new window to the universe - a PowerPoint presentation which accompanied the lecture by Assistant Professor Gabriela González, Penn State University, USA, delivered as part of the International Women in Physics Lecture Tour 2001
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/curric/stage6/phys/gravwave/index.htm

The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere - from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre
http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/Intro.html

From Stargazers to Starships - from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre
http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sintro.htm

A brief history of cosmology - from the University of St Andrews
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html

Windows to the Universe - from University Corporation of Atmospheric Research
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/

The Nature of Space and Time - an article in Sientific American by Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/123/lecture-7/hawking.html

Cosmology: The Study of the Universe - from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html

Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial - from the University of California in Los Angeles, including Frequently Asked Questions in Cosmology
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_01.htm

Primordial Deuterium and the Big Bang - abstract only of a feature article from Scientific American
http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=FE105BC2-BB99-4C3F-AB6D-4A20D02275E
article available at
http://www.adishakti.org/pdf_files/primordial_deuterium_(sciam.com).pdf

Violence in the Cosmos - from the University of Tennessee
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/

Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology - from the University of Tennessee
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/

Welcome to the SETI (Search for the Extraterrestrial Intelligence) module - Syracuse University
http://physics.syr.edu/courses/CCD_NEW/seti/index.html

Leicester University's Educational Guide to Space and Astronomy - contains information on space missions and the universe
http://www.star.le.ac.uk/edu/Index.shtml


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Models of the Universe

Ask the Space Scientist - from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, including Origins of the Universe and The Big Bang Theory
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/askmag.html

Primordial Deuterium and the Big Bang - abstract only of a feature article from Scientific American
http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=FE105BC2-BB99-4C3F-AB6D-4A20D02275E
article available at
http://www.adishakti.org/pdf_files/primordial_deuterium_(sciam.com).pdf

Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies - from Swinburne University
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~gmackie/DarkStar/alpha.html

Astronomy Timeline - from Windows to the Universe, University Corporation of Atmospheric Research
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/uts/timeline.html&edu=high

The Universe of Aristotle and Ptolemy - from the University of Tennessee
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/aristotle.html

Starry Messenger - Phase I of the Electronic History of Astronomy developed in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, includes web pages on Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Kepler and Ptolemy
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/

Galaxies and the Universe - WWW Course Notes - from The University of Alabama
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/galaxies/

CERES: The Expanding Universe - lesson ideas from The University of Montana
http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/Universe/uni1.html

Microcosmic Bang: Mashing atomic nuclei to create a quark soup - an article in ScienceNewsOnline
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arch/9_21_96/bob1.htm

Quark and Hadron Dynamics - report from Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee
http://www.nupecc.org/report97/report97_hadron/node2.html

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Friedmann - from the University of St Andrews
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Friedmann.html

FRIEDMANN UNIVERSE - from Stephen Hawking's Universe, PBS online
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/universes/html/fried.html

THE PARADOX OF MASS-ENERGY EQUIVALENCE - from HyperInfo Knowledge Power Centre
http://www.hyperinfo.ca/~LivingAtom/06.html

Ptolemaic System - from The Galileo Project, Rice University
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/ptolemaic_system.html

Copernican System - from The Galileo Project, Rice University
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/copernican_system.html


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The lives of the stars

Inverse Square Law - an applet from the Virtual Laboratory, University of Oregon
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/InverseSquare/

Color Temperature of a Black Body Radiator - an interactive Java Applet from Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer
http://www.microscopy.fsu.edu/primer/java/photomicrography/horseshoes/

The Milky Way's Hidden Black Hole - an Exploration from Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00089BB7-A803-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21

Distant, Dusty Galaxies - an Exploration from Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000DBAE1-67FA-1CE2-95FB809EC588EF21

THE NATURES OF THE STARS - by Jim Kaler at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/star_intro.html

SPECTRA - by Jim Kaler at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/spectra.html

Star Clusters - from Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, NASA
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/cluster.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day - images from Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Some Physics of Uranium - from the Uranium Information Centre
http://www.uic.com.au/uicphys.htm

Fusion Basics - from the European Fusion Development Agreement
http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/fusion-basics.html

Creating Miniature Stars in the Laboratory - from University of Nevada
http://physics.unr.edu/grad/welser/astro/labastro.html

Alexander Friedmann - from Cosmology and Cosmologists, japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency
http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp/note/kagaku/e/kag110_friedmann_e.html

The Hubble Law - Java applet that allows students to take spectra and galaxy dimensions to simulate Hubble's Law
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/nsf/hub.html

The Hot Big Bang Model - contains information on the relationship between particle physics and the Big Bang
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/bb_home.html

Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

The Stellar Life Cycle - from University of California, Berkeley
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/bmendez/ay10/2000/cycle/cycle.html

The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram - from University of Tennessee
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/hr/hr.html

Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram - from University of Oregon
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Stars/hrdiagram.html

The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram - from University of California, San Diego
http://cassfos02.ucsd.edu/public/tutorial/HR.html

Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram - classroom activity plotting stars on the H-R Diagram, from University of Montana
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/tslater/plunger/hr_diag.htm

The Life of a Star - from THE ASTROPHYSICS GROUP, KEELE UNIVERSITY
http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/workx/starlife/StarpageS_26M.html

Construction of H-R Diagrams - detailed information from University of Massachusetts
http://www.astro.umass.edu/theses/allen/pro/node1.html

Color Designation and the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram - from Monthly Astronomy Lessons (Dr Jamie Love)
http://www.synapses.co.uk/astro/hrdiag.html

Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram - a classroom activity from University of Montana
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/tslater/plunger/hr_diag.htm

Types of Stars and the HR diagram - notes and review questions from Astronomy Notes
http://www.astronomynotes.com/starprop/s12.htm

Main Sequence Stars
Star Life Cycle - interactive tutorial from ASPIRE, NASA
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/starlife_main.html

Main Sequence Stars - from Imagine, NASA
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/stars.html

Main Sequence Stars - from Australian Telescope National Facility
http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/education/senior/astrophysics/stellarevolution_mainsequence.html

Main Sequence Stars - including an Interative Laboratory, from University of Utah
http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/star_life/starlife_sequence.html

Main Sequence Stars - from The Astrophysics Spectator
http://www.astrophysicsspectator.com/topics/stars/MainSequence.html

Red Giants
Can you please tell me in plain language what a Red Giant is? - from Imagine, NASA
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/971016.html

Red Giants - from HyperPhysics, Georgia State University
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/redgia.html

White Dwarfs

White Dwarf Stars - from Imagine, NASA
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/dwarfs.html


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Electromagnetic Radiation

Radioactivity in Nature - from Idaho State University
http://physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm

Radioactivity - from HyperPhysics, Georgia State University
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/radact.html

ABC's of Nuclear Science - from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://www.lbl.gov/abc/Basic.html

UIC Educational Resource Papers - from Uranium Information Centre
http://www.uic.com.au/education.htm

Print-Quality Chart Cut-outs - two interactive charts, "Fuundamental Particles and Interaction Chart" and "History fo the Universe Poster", from The Particle Adventures, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/frameless/chart_print.html


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Influence of the Sun

Solar Physics - from Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/

Studying the Sun - from Space Environment Center
http://www.sel.noaa.gov/Curric_7-12/Chapter_3.pdf

The Solar Wind - from amrsahll Space Flight Center, NASA
http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/sun_wind.htm

The Seven Year Switch - from University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
http://www.ucar.edu/communications/highlights/1998/switch.html

Space Weather Glossary, terms and definitions of solar and sunspot activity - from Space.com
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather_glossary.html

Space Weather - current information on Space Weather
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Aurora - from The Australian Space Weather Agency
http://www.ips.gov.au/Educational/1/1

Solar Terrestrial - from The Australian Space Weather Agency
http://www.ips.gov.au/Educational/1/2

Space Weather Effects - from The Australian Space Weather Agency
http://www.ips.gov.au/Educational/1/3

The Diverse Effects of Solar Events - covers the diverse effects of solar storms
http://www.ips.gov.au/Educational/1/3/6

A Primer on Space Weather - from Space Environment Center
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/primer/primer.html

LOOKING SOUTH: Managing Technology, Opportunities and the Global Environment - from Marc Duldig, Atmospheric and Space Physics Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Environment and Heritage
http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=326


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