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Noon Shadow Model
written by Wolfgang Christian and Todd Timberlake
The Noon Shadow model shows the geometry of the shadow cast by a gnomon at noon.  Users can change the orientation of the gnomon as well as its latitude.  The height of the gnomon and its shadow length are displayed in Earth radius units.

Noon Shadow model is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the ejs_astronomy_Noon Shadow.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.  You can modify this simulation if you have EJS installed by right-clicking within the plot and selecting "Open EJS Model" from the pop-up menu item.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE).
1 source code document is available
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Astronomy Education
= Curricula
- Historical Astronomy
= History of Astronomy
- High School
- Middle School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Interactive Simulation
Intended Users Formats Ratings
- Learners
- Educators
- General Publics
- application/java
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Access Rights:
Free access
License:
This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:
Todd Timberlake
Keywords:
Earth, Eratosthenes, Sun, circumference, gnomon, measure, shadow
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created April 19, 2010 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:
September 12, 2015 by Wolfgang Christian
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when Cataloged:
April 19, 2010
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W. Christian and T. Timberlake, Computer Program NOON SHADOW MODEL, Version 1.0 (2010), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9980&DocID=1605).
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W. Christian and T. Timberlake, Computer Program NOON SHADOW MODEL, Version 1.0 (2010), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9980&DocID=1605>.
APA Format
Christian, W., & Timberlake, T. (2010). Noon Shadow Model (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9980&DocID=1605
Chicago Format
Christian, Wolfgang, and Todd Timberlake. "Noon Shadow Model." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9980&DocID=1605 (accessed 28 March 2024).
MLA Format
Christian, Wolfgang, and Todd Timberlake. Noon Shadow Model. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2010. Java (JRE) 1.5. 28 Mar. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9980&DocID=1605>.
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@misc{ Author = "Wolfgang Christian and Todd Timberlake", Title = {Noon Shadow Model}, Month = {April}, Year = {2010} }
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Is Based On Easy Java Simulations Modeling and Authoring Tool

The Easy Java Simulations Modeling and Authoring Tool is needed to explore the computational model used in the Noon Shadow Model.

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