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EC.050 | January IAP 2010 | Undergraduate
Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past: Galileo
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    • Compass and Spectacles
    • Glass Blowing and Lenses
    • Observations
    • Observations and Motion
    • Motion and Telescope
    • Slide Rule
    • Telescope
    • Lenses
    • Motion, Lens and the Observatory
    • Motion and Light
    • Light
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Motion and Telescope

Activities involving motion and the telescope

Student plucks a lute string. Students discussing lab notebook results. Tape on the blackboard records motions of a ball; measurements from the tape are on the table to the right. Close up of the tape markings from the balls motion in a curved track. Setting up a telescope outdoors. A student looks through the telescope at the moon. A marble as seen while it rests on a mirror illusion surface. An LED flashlights pattern is projected through a series of lenses set up by a student. This produces an intriguing effect on the backdrop screen. Students view the moon through a small telescope, seeing its magnified surface for their first time. Students raise their glasses, toasting Galileo.

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Instructor
  • Dr. Elizabeth Cavicchi
Departments
  • Edgerton Center
As Taught In
January IAP 2010
Level
Undergraduate
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  • Humanities
    History
    Intellectual History
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notes Lecture Notes
group_work Projects
collections Image Gallery
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