The Luge track
So, putting it all together, if light behaves l...
Look at the time between two successive peak po...
Now, suppose light acts like a wave instead.If ...
For example, consider a ball rolling towards a ...
What happens is that a small section of the pla...
Deep inside some stars,the conditions --- tempe...
Animation courtesy of The Virtual Telescope Pro...
The other half of the time (25% overall), theph...
All the waves we've seen so far havenot moved.W...
Click on each picture to see an animated sequen...
Click on the picture above to blink the two ima...
So, let's move the student farther away.(Click ...
Now, watch again as I put one of the little pha...
It might help to answer a few simple questions....
slow version of animated HR diagram fast versio...
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To make things EVEN simpler,let's assume that t...
Here are the ships of the Red Fleetwhich happen...
Joe then hops onto the Green Navy ship Green Fl...
Detecting gravitational waves
(Click the image below to watch Red-Navy-time m...
Now, what happens if we watch the ropeover a lo...
Observe an Iridium Satellite Flare
Day 401 - 500 Click on the graph to see what ha...
Since 50% of the photons from the laser will pa...
Shooting a hockey puck
I've exaggerated the actual shifts by a factor ...
Day 1 - 80 Click on the graph to see what happens.
Tools: Geometry and Time
Enhancing Strategic Discourse Systematically us...
The spherical mini-waves expand outward and ove...
Measure the Earth's Radius with a Stopwatch