Topics: Mobile Applications
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Albert Einstein (Atlas@Cern)
In 1922, Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
- Content: His life, STR, GTR, Photoelectric effect, E = mc2, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Further Materials: Atlas@Cern Portal, http://www.learningwithatlas-portal.eu/
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/albert_einstein/albert_einstein.swf (412 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/21_en.swf (412 KB)
Atlas (Atlas@Cern)
ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is a particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is a particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN.
- Content: General, Construction, Data processing, Goals, Other experiments, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Further Materials: Atlas@Cern Portal, www.learningwithatlas-portal.eu
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/atlas/atlas.swf (292 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/03_en.swf (292 KB)
Big Bang (Atlas@Cern)
The "Big Bang" theory describes the beginning of the universe - the matter, space, and time. The Big Bang ocurred about 13.7 billion of years ago.
- Content: Introduction, Expansion, Progress, Background Radiation, Big Bang and Cern, Quiz
- Targetgroup: from 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Further Materials: Atlas@Cern Portal, www.learningwithatlas-portal.eu
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/big_bang_cern/big_bang.swf (410 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/19_en.swf (410 KB)
Big Bang (Cosmos)
The "Big Bang" theory tells that with the Big Bang, matter, space and time has begun. The founder of this theory was a physicist, named Georges Lemaître. But astrophysicists are still far from explaining the Big Bang in detail.
- Content: Definition, Information, Stages, Expansion, Proofs, Quiz
- Targetgroup: from 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Further Materials: Cosmos Portal, www.cosmosportal.eu
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/big_bang_cosmos/big_bang.swf (595 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/20_en.swf (595 KB)
Black Holes (Atlas@Cern)
A black hole is a region of space from which nothing, including light, can escape. It is the result of the deformation of spacetime caused by a very compact mass. Around a black hole there is an undetectable surface which marks the point of no return, called an event horizon.
- Content: general, evolution, size, observation, historical, quiz
- Targetgroup: from 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Further Materials: Atlas@Cern Portal, www.learningwithatlas-portal.eu
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS:) http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/black_holes_cern/black_holes.swf (309 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/20_en.swf (309 KB)
Black Holes (Cosmos)
Even stars doesn't live forever and when the lifetime of very massive stars is over, they explode in a big explosion. This explosion is called Supernova. Sometimes the remaining core of the star collapses to a black hole. A black hole is a region of space from which nothing, including light, can escape.
- Content: Origin, General, Event horizon, Singularity, Effects, Quiz
- Targetgroup: from 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Further Materials: Cosmos Portal, http://www.cosmosportal.eu
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/black_holes_cosmos/black_holes.swf (480 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/23_en_new.swf (480 KB)
Cern (Atlas@Cern)
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.
- Content: Cern, Members, Experiments, LHC, Facts, Quiz
- Targetgroup: from 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Further Materials: Atlas@Cern Portal, www.learningwithatlas-portal.eu
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/cern_cern/cern.swf (267 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/01_en.swf (267 KB)
Cern (Cosmos)
CERN is the European organisation for nuclear research and is located near Genf in Switzerland. The shortcut CERN is french and means "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire". It is the biggest research centre in the world that deals with particle physics.
- Content: What is CERN?, Member States, Research, LHC, Useful Facts, Quiz
- Targetgroup: from 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Further Materials: Cosmos Portal, www.cosmosportal.eu
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists: Observatories in Austria and CERN, www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/cern_cosmos/cern.swf (532 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/21_en.swf (532 KB)
Comets (Cosmos)
A comet is a small luminary. At the sun near - parts of his course you can see the "coma" which is an effect of gas emissions. Near at sun, the comet core is covered in a dusty cover, the so called "coma" which can be until 2,7 millions of km.
- Content: General, Types, Design, Naming, Meteorstreams, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/comets/comets.swf (501 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/11_en.swf (501 KB)
Cosmic Rays (Atlas@Cern)
Cosmic Rays are highly energetic particle radiations from the depths of the universe. They consist of mainly protons, electrons, completely ionised atoms and gamma rays.
- Content: general, composition, origin, detection, effects, quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/cosmic_rays/cosmic_rays.swf (281 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/18_en.swf (281 KB)
Development (Cosmos)
Todays most reknown theorie for the origin of the universe is the big bang approximately 15 billion years ago.
- Content: Begining, Galaxies, Stars, Size and age, The End? Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/development/development.swf (596 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/19_en.swf (596 KB)
Earth (Cosmos)
The diameter of the earths equator is approximately 12,700 km. If we would drive along the equator with 100 kilometers per hour, we would need about 17 days for one round. Exclusive the tank stops and all other breaks.
- Content: Size, Structure, Surface, Atmosphere, Life, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/earth/earth.swf (489 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/03_en.swf (489 KB)
Energy (Atlas@Cern)
This energy is a physical quantity that plays in all branches of physics and in engineering chemistry, biology and the economy a central role. Their unit is the joule.
- Content: General, Nuclear Energy, Wind Energy, Water Power, Solar Energy, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/energy/energy.swf (417 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/15_en.swf (417 KB)
Fundamental Particles (Atlas@Cern)
Fundamental Particles are the smallest known elements of the universe. The special thing on FP is that it is not possible to divide them into smaller parts.
- Content: General Information, Structure, Quarks, Leptons, Special Forms, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/fundamental_particles/fundamental_particles.swf (290 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/12_en.swf (290 KB)
Galaxies (Cosmos)
Galaxies are big accumulations that insist of gas, dust and stars. These accumulations are connected to gather with gravity. The galaxies differ in their size, mass and structure. The smallest galaxies, for example, are dwarfs with approximately 100 000 stars.
- Content: General, Formation, Galaxy Types, Milky Way, Ask McGalaxy, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/galaxies/galaxies.swf (623 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/12_en.swf (623 KB)
Hawking, Stephen (Atlas@Cern)
His main work are various theories about Black Holes including Hawking-Radiation and the Black Hole information paradoxom.
- Content: Biography, Voice Computer, Hawking-Radiation, Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/stephen_hawking/stephen_hawking.swf (220 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/22_en.swf (220 KB)
High Energy Physic (Atlas@Cern)
High Energy Processes: The matter known to us consists of atoms which are built up from a nuclear core from neutrons and protons covered with a nearly massless hull of electrons.
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/high_energy_physics/high_energy_physics.swf (379 KB)http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/high_energy_physics/high_energy_physics.swf
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/05_en.swf (379 KB)
Higgs Boson (Atlas@Cern)
The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model in predicted to exist by the Standard Model in particle physics. At present there are no known fundamental scalar particles in nature.
- Content: Peter Higgs, Higgs particle, Higgs mechanism, Higgs and CERN, Theory of everything, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/higgs_boson/higgs_boson.swf (268 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/07_en.swf (268 KB)
Jupiter (Cosmos)
Jupiter is one of the gasplanets, which are sometimes reffered to as the jovian planets. These planets are the outer planets. In this group, Jupiter is the innermost and circles the sun bearby the asteroid belt.
- Content: General Info, Rotation, Compostion, Moons, Exploration, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/jupiter/jupiter.swf (623 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/05_en.swf (623 KB)
LHC - Large Hadron Collider (Atlas@Cern)
The LCS ist the Large Hadron Collider. It is located near Geneva, it's length is about 27 km and it cost 3,9 billion Euro. In the LHC particles travel almost at the speed of light. That means that a beam does about 11 000 tours fo the accelerator each second!
- Content: General information, Control Center, ALICE detector, CMS detector, LHCb detector
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS:): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/lhc/lhc.swf (458 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/02_en.swf (458 KB)
Mars (Cosmos)
The planet Mars is the fourth planet in our solar system and the outer neighbour of the Earth.
- Content: Introduction, Rotation, Geology, Conditions, Mission to Mars, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/mars/mars.swf (513 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/04_en.swf (513 KB)
Mass (Atlas@Cern)
In physics, "mass" commonly refers to any of three properties of matter, which have been shown experimentally to be equivalent: inertial mass, active gravitational mass, passive gravitational mass.
- Content: Definition, Measurement, Weight, Inertia, Gravitational Field, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/mass/mass.swf (280 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/13_en.swf (280 KB)
Matter (Atlas@Cern)
Matter is anything that takes up space and has mass. It is what makes up all substances.
- Content: Definition, Structure of Matter, States of Matter, Changes in Matter, Types of Matter, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/matter/matter.swf (288 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/11_en.swf (228 KB)
Mercury (Cosmos)
Mercury is the smallest planet of our solar system and the closest planet to the sun. It's among the so called inner planets.
- Content: In general, Structure, Temperatures, Surface, Naming, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/mercury/mercury.swf (500 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/01_en.swf (500 KB)
Meteors (Cosmos)
The visible path of a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere is a meteor, commonly called a "shooting star" or "falling star". Those meteoroids enter our atmosphere with a speed up to 70 km/s.
- Content: Meteor, Meteorid, Glowing, Types, Impact/Bonus, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/meteors/meteors.swf (500 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/15_en.swf (500 KB)
Moon (Cosmos)
The moon is the only natural satellite of the earth. The distance between the earth and the moon is about 384.000 kilometers.
- Content: Preface, Surface, Moon crater, Earth and Moon, Moon landing, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/moon/moon.swf (540 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/14_en.swf (540 KB)
Neptune (Cosmos)
The planet consists of the elements hydrogen, helium, methane and other different ferrics. These ferrics again can consist of ammoniac, water, ammonium sulfide and methane.
- Content: General, Ice giant, Orbit, Climate, Magnetic field, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/neptune/neptune.swf (495 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/08_en.swf (495 KB)
Origin of the Universe (Cosmos)
We certainly know that our universe exists, however, this knowledge alone has not satisfied mandkind's quest for further understanding. Throughout time we have asked ourselves these questions: How did our universe begin? How old is our universe? How did matter come to exist?
- Content: Introduction, Big Ban, The Universe, Galaxies, Stars, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/origin_of_the_universe/origin_of_the_universe.swf (652 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/13_en_new.swf (652 KB)
Particle Accelerator (Atlas@Cern)
A particle accelerator is a device, where charged particles, electrons or protons, in some cases even a whole atom, are accelerated to high velocities by electric fields.
- Content: General, Functionallity, Accelerator types, Detector, Detector types, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS:) http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/particle_accelerators/particle_accelerators.swf (204 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/09_en.swf (204 KB)
Particle Collision (Atlas@Cern)
A particle accelerator (or atom smasher, in the early 20th century) is a device that uses electric fields to generate focused beams of high speed ions or charged subatomic particles.
- Content: Particle accelerator, Auroras, Particle decay, Cascade energy, Feynman-Digrams, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/particle_collision/particle_collision.swf (259 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/10_en.swf (259 KB)
Particle Physic (Atlas@Cern)
The standard model of particle physic is a physical theorie, which the known element particles and change effects describes. The SM (standard model) is the basic of the modern particle physic.
- Content: Standard model, Element particles, Waves or Particle, Forces, Supersymetry, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/particle_physics/particle_physics.swf (248 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/04_en.swf (248 KB)
Planets (Cosmos)
An celestial body is a planet, when it
... is orbiting a star or stellar remnant
... is massive enought to be rounded by its own gravity
... has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals (solid objects thought to exist in protoplanetary disks and in debris disks)
- Content: Definition, View, Pluto, Exoplanets, Dwarf Planets, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/planets/planets.swf (482 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/10_en.swf (482 KB)
Quantum Physics (Atlas@Cern)
Quantum physics is the sector of physics which deals with the behaviour and the interaction of the smallest particles.
- Content: Founder, Definition, Quantum mechanics, Double-slit experiment, Photoelectric effect, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/quantum_physics/quantum_physics.swf (332 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/06_en.swf (332 KB)
Satellites (Cosmos)
A satellite is driven with an electric rocket engine. These electric engines produce only a low impulse, so satellites needs a satellite-launching rocket, to carry them in to space.
- Content: History, Facts, Types, Astronomy, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/satellites/satellites.swf (343 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/17_en.swf (343 KB)
Saturn (Cosmos)
The planet Saturn is the sixth planet in terms of the closest distance to the sun.
- Content: Genesis, History, Moons, Ring Systems, Weather, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/saturn/saturn.swf (493 KB)
- Backup (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/07_en.swf (493 KB)
Solar System (Cosmos)
Our solar system counts eight planets which are circling around the Sun in elliptical curves. But our solar system is only a small part of our galaxy called "Milky Way" and this galaxy itself is also only one galaxy among others.
- Content: General, Inner Planets, Outer Planets, Asteroid Belt, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/solar_system/solar_system.swf (501 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/16_en.swf (501 KB)
Standard Model (Atlas@Cern)
The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory of three of the four known fundamental interactions and the elementary particles that take part in these interactions.
- Content: The Standard Model, Atomic Structure, Higgs, Universe, Isotopes, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS:) http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/standard_model/standard_model.swf (237 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/08_en.swf (237 KB)
Stars (Cosmos)
As a Star we characterize a self-luminous ball of gas. Nearly every luminous spot on the night sky is a far away star.
- Content: Description, Development, Fixed Stars, Constellations, The Sun, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/stars/stars.swf (523 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/18_en_new.swf (523 KB)
Sun (Cosmos)
The sun is the biggest orb in our planetary system. The sun accured for nearly 4.7 billion years.
- Content: Information, Facts, Structure, Solar Eclipse, Sun Spots, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/sun/sun.swf (545 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/09_en.swf (545 KB)
Uranus (Cosmos)
The 7th planet in our solar system is named after the Greek diety of the sky, Uranos. It is four times as big and about 14 times as massive as the Earth.
- Content: Facts, Orbit, Constitution, Ring system, Moons, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/uranus/uranus.swf (567 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/06_en_new.swf (567 KB)
Venus (Cosmos)
Like all other planets, Venus was initially only a slightly larger rock that always more mass to be moved. Venus was only a round planet, as it has captured enough mass to gravity by geological processes to start.
- Content: Formation, Structure, Surface, Atmosphere, Astrodynamics, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/venus/venus.swf (503 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/02_en.swf (503 KB)
Wave Particle Duality (Atlas@Cern)
Does light consist of particles or is it just a simple wave? There is probably no statement you will find more often in scientific literature concerning physics than "Light is a particle and a wave at the same time."
- Content: What is light?, Wave theory, Photon theory, Examples, History, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 16 years
- Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, interdisciplinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scienticts: http://www.cern.ch
- Mobil (ViS:) http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/wave_particle_duality/wave_particel_duality.swf (276 KB
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://mocern.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/17_en.swf (276 KB)
Zodiacs / Starry Sky (Cosmos)
Starry Sky: The night sky with all the visible stars is known as starry sky. The starry sky is divided into two parts of hemisperes: 1) the visible sky, 2) half the sky below the horizon.
- Content: Definition, The Ecliptic, Zodiac, Ecliptic constellation, Constellations, Quiz
- Targetgroup: up to 15 years
- Subjects: Physics, interdisclinary
- Museum/Science Center/Scientists:
- Mobil (ViS): http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil_en/zodiacs/zodiacs.swf (420 KB)
- Backup Mobil (FH): http://moco.dmt.fh-joanneum.at/22_en_new.swf (420 KB)











































