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PBS Learning Media: Virtual Pendulum 
  
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This animated Shockwave activity explores pendulum motion by displaying the patterns traced by the tip of an ideal pendulum. Swing it back and forth from different heights and change…
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https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.mfw.zpendulumin...
What Really Killed the Dinosaurs? 
  
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This article from the BBC describes some of the controversy in the theory that the mass extinction of the Cretaceous period was caused by a meteorite impact. The crater thought by…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dino_prog_summary.sht...
Do We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs? 
  
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This article from the NASA Astrobiology Institute raises some issues in the accepted theory that the mass extinction event of the late Cretaceous was caused by a meteorite impact.…
http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/do-we-know-what-killed-the-dinosa...
20 Ways the World Could End 
  
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This article from Discover magazine overviews twenty ways the planet could experience mass extinction or worse. Examples include asteroid impact, alien invasion, and gamma-ray bursts.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/20-ways-the-world-could-en...
PBS Learning Media: Building Blocks 
  
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This is an extensive set of short downloadable video segments that may be embedded free of cost into educational presentations. Of special interest to physical science and physics…
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NOVA: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens 
  
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This is a multimedia module on the life and contributions of Galileo. It includes a four-part interactive section in which students can conduct virtual versions of his classic…
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/galileo-battle-for-the-heavens.htm...
Beyond the Big Bang 
  
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This site disscusses inflation by beginning with an introduction to Eienstein and his biggest blunder. Then it overviews the big bang model of the universer and it also explains why…
http://www.felderbooks.com/papers/inflation.html
The Expanding Universe 
  
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This site begins by discussing Edwin Hubble's great contribution to astronomy, that the universe is expanding. The major points in his paper overviews the possibility of an infinite…
http://www.felderbooks.com/papers/cosmo.html
First Supernova Discovered with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics 
  
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This press release from the Gemini Observatory covers the discovery of a supernova using laser adaptive optics. Laser guide adaptive optics help eliminate atmospheric noise from…
http://www.gemini.edu/node/11226
The Lives of Binary Stars 
  
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This site offers information about the history of binary stars, how they form, and their evolution. There are also images and animations provided throughout this tutorial to better…
http://www.vikdhillon.staff.shef.ac.uk/seminars/lives_of_binary_stars/ti...
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