Interactive for transit method

Practical Activity for 11-14 IOP RESOURCES

The light grapher interactive below is for use with the transit method activity to model how astronomers detect exoplanets.

Light grapher

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Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Many students believe light bounces off mirrors, but not off other objects

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RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Many students cannot correctly define 'an image’

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RESEARCH REVIEW Earth and Space

Some students observe clouds blocking parts of the Moon and use this as the basis for the different phases of the Moon 

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