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Space

Part 1 - Earth's Gravitational Field


Part 2 - Projectile Motion

Projectile Motion - a tutorial on how to solve projectile motion problems can be found at http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/twodim/node9.html#SECTION00330000000000000000

Projectile Motion applet - choose the initial velocity, mass and angle of firing and watch the resulting motion at http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/ProjectileMotion/jarapplet.html

Projectile Motion applet - two cannons at different heights fire at each other. What will happen? Find out at http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/sci_lab/ntnujava/projectile/projectile.html

Projectile Motion applet -  look at trajectories of many projectiles with the same initial speed at http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/sci_lab/ntnujava/projectile3/projectile3.html

Projectile Motion as applied to celestial mechanics applets - can be found at http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/CCD_NEW/seti/tutorial/java.html#


Part 3 - Lift-Off!


Part 4 - Once Around The Block Then Home, James


Part 5 - Space Travel and Communication


Part 6 - The Special Theory of Relativity

Explore Einstein's special relativity, incluyding Lorentz contraction, time dilation and more at http://cco.caltech.edu/~phtys1/java/phys1/Einstein A look at cosmos relativity from Cambridge UK can be found at http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/


General Space/Relativity Links

Stephen Hawking's Universehttp://www.thirteen.org/hawking/html/home.html
Spaceboy's Cosmology and Cosmologists http://spaceboy.nasda.go.jp/note/kagaku/e/kag_e.html





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