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Sidereal and Solar Day
written by Mario Belloni and Todd Timberlake
The Sidereal and Solar Day model illustrates the difference between the sidereal and solar day. The planets of our solar system both orbit around Sun and rotate on their axis. These two rotations allow for multiple definitions of what a day is.  This simulation shows the orbit and rotation of a planet (blue) around Sun (orange). It uses an orange arrow to represent where Sun would be seen in the sky relative to the background stars.  A point on the rotating planet is shown with a red arrow to indicate where that point faces relative to the background stars. In order to account for the true scale of the distance of the stars away from the planer, a longer red arrow from Sun points in the same direction as the arrow on the planet to indicate where this point faces relative to the background stars.  Users can toggle between the geocentric and heliocentric point of view. The parameters are initially set to model the orbit and rotation of Earth.

Sidereal and Solar Day model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling tool.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the ejs_astronomy_SiderealSolarDay.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.

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
- Fundamentals
= Night Sky
- Lower Undergraduate
- High School
- Upper Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Interactive Simulation
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License:
This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license.
Rights Holder:
Mario Belloni and Todd Timberlake
Keywords:
EJS, Easy Java Simulations, OSP, Open Source Physics, astronomy, day, night sky, sidereal, solar
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created February 6, 2010 by Mario Belloni
Record Updated:
January 11, 2022 by Lyle Barbato
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great

Author: Samar Rashid
Posted: March 25, 2011 at 1:27PM

very useful

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M. Belloni and T. Timberlake, Computer Program SIDEREAL AND SOLAR DAY, Version 1.0 (2010), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9789&DocID=1482).
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M. Belloni and T. Timberlake, Computer Program SIDEREAL AND SOLAR DAY, Version 1.0 (2010), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9789&DocID=1482>.
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Belloni, M., & Timberlake, T. (2010). Sidereal and Solar Day (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved December 13, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9789&DocID=1482
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Belloni, Mario, and Todd Timberlake. "Sidereal and Solar Day." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9789&DocID=1482 (accessed 13 December 2024).
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Belloni, Mario, and Todd Timberlake. Sidereal and Solar Day. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2010. Java (JRE) 1.5. 13 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9789&DocID=1482>.
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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 Sidereal and Solar Day.

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Covers the Same Topic As Sidereal and Solar Day JS Model

This simulation is the Java version of the Javascript-based Sidereal and Solar JS Model.

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