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Measurement of the Sidereal Day with Tracker  [ Computer Program ]
  
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M. Belloni
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The Measurement of the Sidereal Day with Tracker Lab uses the Tracker video analysis tool to measure and analyze the motion stars near Polaris (the North Celestial Pole) to determine…
https://www.compadre.org/OSP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11614&DocID=2516
Measurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with Tracker  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Measurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with Tracker Lab uses the Tracker video analysis tool to measure and analyze the motion of sunspots to determine the solar rotation rate.…
https://www.compadre.org/OSP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11617&DocID=2517
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Teaching Astronomy Using Tracker 
  
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M. Belloni, W. Christian, and D. Brown, Phys. Teach., 51 (3), 149-151 (2013).
The paper Teaching Astronomy Using Tracker describes two new video analysis experiments for the teaching of astronomy made possible by Tracker, a free, open-source video analysis…
https://www.compadre.org/OSP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13019&DocID=3585
Astronomy Education Review
Modeling the History of Astronomy: Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho 
  
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T. Timberlake, Astron. Educ. Rev., 12 (1), 010201 (2013).
This paper , submitted to Astronomy Education Review , describes a series of activities in which students investigate and use the models of planetary motion introduced by the…
https://www.compadre.org/OSP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12579&DocID=3173
Enabling Gravity Physics by Inquiry using Easy Java Simulation  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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L. Wee, G. Goh, and C. Chew
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L. Wee, G. Goh, and C. Chew, Fifth Redesigning Pedagogy Conference (2013).
Studying the gravitational physics of the solar system is difficult in real life. This paper describes four pedagogical computer models that we have developed for active inquiry…
https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0079
Stellar Parallax and Aberration Package  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Stellar Parallax and Aberration Launcher package is a self-contained file for teaching the concepts of parallax and aberration of light as they apply to astronomy. The file…
https://www.compadre.org/OSP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12029&DocID=2899

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