Based on topics and graphics from the Fix textbook, the animations better illustrate concepts that are not easily depicted on the printed page. Following is a list of animations, with the figure number to which they correspond. Click on figure 16.1 to see a sample interactive animation. Use the "Back" button on your browser to return to this page.
1.18 A time exposure of the northern sky
2.20 Phases of the Moon
2.27 Movement of the moon’s nodes
3.17 Ptolemy’s model of motion of a planet (requires quicktime plugin)
4.3 Position of Sun/Earth/rotation axis
4.4 Retrograde motion of Mars according to the Heliocentric Model
4.6 S and P waves generated by earthquakes
4.12 Tycho Brahe’s model of the solar system
4.15 Kepler’s Laws
4.19 Phases of Venus according to the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems
5.13 High and Low Tide/Tidal Bulges
6.2 An electromagnetic wave (requires quicktime plugin)
6.6 The Doppler Effect
7.11 The number of remaining 13N Nuclei declines with time
8.3 Foucault Pendulum
8.6 Coriolis Effect
9.2 Rotation of the Moon
9.14 Eclipses and the Moon’s orbital inclination
10.3 Mercury’s rotation during two Mercury years
10.21 Venus
11.18 NASA movie zooming around the surface of mars
12.6 The rotation of Jupiter
12.31 A2:1 resonance
13.2 The seasons of Uranus
13.8 The rotation of Neptune
14.31 NASA movie zooming around Miranda
15.2 Meteor Shower
15.19 Orientation of Comet tails
16.1 Parallax of a nearby star
16.6 Absorption
16.7 A model of a hydrogen atom
17.2 Proton-Proton Chain
19.4 An H-R diagram showing the evolutionary track of a one-solar-mass star
19.10 Structure of a star as hydrogen shell burning begins
20.19 The oblique rotator model of a pulsar
20.29 The paths of light rays from the collapsing core of a star
21.4 Orbital Motion reflected in the shifting spectral lines of a spectroscopic binary
22.23 The Milky Way
22.35 The winding dilemma
23.15 Galaxies with tails
23.25 The expansion of the Universe
24.10 An explanation of superluminal motion
25.18 Pancake model of the formation of clusters of galaxies
26.1 The steady state theory
26.12 The future of expansion
27.5 Position and Doppler shift of a star orbiting its common center of mass with a planet