https://github.com/zingale/astro_animations

Various animations used for teaching introductory astronomy concepts
https://github.com/zingale/astro_animations

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Various animations used for teaching introductory astronomy concepts

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zingale/astro_animations
• Owner: zingale
• License: other
• Created: 2014-08-11T02:06:53.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-18T14:32:43.000Z (21 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-30T14:18:03.926Z (9 days ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://zingale.github.io/astro_animations/
• Size: 468 MB
• Stars: 85
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 38
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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astro_animations

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See http://zingale.github.io/astro_animations/

Various animations (and some figures) used for teaching introductory

astronomy concepts.  

Python codes are used to generate static images which are then

animated as a movie.  Both the movies and the python codes are present

here.

Note: many of these animations were quickly put together before a

lecture and don't necessarily use the more elegant coding or

libraries.  These will be refined during semesters when I am teaching

introductory astronomy.

Many of the animations are also up on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5D1C3702F5D1E571

`anim_solvers`: support routines for the animations (e.g. a class

that understands a solar system and how to integrate the planet

orbits

`binary_exoplanets`: various animations illustrating binary star

orbits and concepts of exoplanets (radial velocities, transits).

`CFD`: some simple animations that show ideas in computational fluid

dynamics.

`ellipses`: simple animations that illustrate the properties of 

ellipses.

`galaxies`: animations related to galaxies.

`mechanics`: animations showing the dynamics of orbits.

`radiation_thermodynamics`: simple animations showing blackbody

curves and thermodynamics concepts.

`radioactive_decay`: an illustration of the random process of

radioactive decay.

`scripts`: support scripts, including a simple wrapper for mencoder to

string PNGs into a movie

`solar_system_motion`: lots of animations showing the basics of 

Kepler's laws, the Moon's orbit and phases, sidereal vs. synodic

periods, ...

`stars`: figures related to stellar astrophysics.

`waves`: animations related to wave motion.

## Setup

Many of the routines use the solver in anim_solvers to do the

integration.  This directory needs to be in your `PYTHONPATH` for the

scripts to execute.

You will need to have `numpy`, `matplotlib`, and the `python-basemap`

packages installed for the scripts to run.