Berry College Physics and Astronomy Simulations

AST 120: The Copernican Revolution

  1. Motion of the Stars
  2. Tracking the Stars
  3. Shadows and Gnomons
  4. Motions of the Sun
  5. Latitude and the Spherical Earth
  6. The Two Sphere Model
  7. Eratosthenes Measures the Earth
  8. Longitude and Measuring Time
  9. The Zodiac and Precession
  10. Parallax
  11. The Moon and its Phases
  12. Calendars and Eclipses
  13. The Planets
  14. The Homocentric Universe: Eudoxus and Aristotle
  15. Apollonius' Epicycles and Hipparchus' Eccentric
  16. Ptolemy's Syntaxis
  17. Ptolemy's Universe
  18. Motions of the Earth
  19. Copernicus' Theory of the Planets
  20. Scale of the Universe
  21. Breaking the Spheres
  22. The Tychonic System
  23. The Secret of the Universe
  24. The New Astronomy
  25. Abandoning the Circle
  26. Harmony of the World
  27. Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
  28. Message of the Stars
  29. The Moons of Jupiter
  30. Sunspots and Solar Rotation
  31. Romer and the Speed of Light
  32. Falling Bodies
  33. How Things Fall: Aristotle vs. Galileo
  34. Neutral Motions
  35. Falling Bodies on a Rotating Earth: Newton and Hooke
  36. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
  37. Central Forces
  38. Universal Gravitation
  39. Direct Evidence for Earth's Motions