Stargazer's Corner: Adventures Under the Night Sky
A Solar Eclipse Experiment for a Sunny Day
Learn about solar eclipses with this solar eclipse activity. All you need is a tape measure, a long stick, a small sphere, and a sunny day.
Guy Vandegrift is a professor of physics education at Wright State University Lake Campus, Ohio. His current passion is an effort to reduce the cost of education by making not only textbooks, but study guides for exams free to all through OpenCourseWare.
Stargazer's Corner: Adventures Under the Night Sky
Learn about solar eclipses with this solar eclipse activity. All you need is a tape measure, a long stick, a small sphere, and a sunny day.
By: Guy Vandegrift June 26, 2017
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