Gravitational Effects in the Solar System
This essay touches briefly on the major effects of gravity in the solar system: tides and resonant effects.
Gravitational Effects in the Solar System Essay PDF
Solar System Dynamics
This project makes use of a basic solar system simulation to explore the nature of resonant gravitational effects in the asteroid belt.
Solar System Dynamics Project PDF
3 responses so far ↓
1 James // Jun 29, 2009 at 10:58 am
Hi Chris,
Thanks for posting examples of your work when you did SAO. Did you have to come up with your own topic for the assignments, or was there a list of suggested projects as well?
I am thinking of starting HET602 but have no background in Astronomy – therefore your rather advanced project on Solar System dynamics has me scared for a newbie wishing to start out.
Cheers!
2 Chris // Jun 29, 2009 at 1:32 pm
You’re welcome.
The HET602 unit is a quite gentle introduction and not heavily technical unless you want it to be. All the terminology and concepts areintroduced in the course material and reading. From memory, and subject to changes over the years, units typically provide a set of topics for the essay and project components. Alternatively, subject to supervisor agreement, you could choose your own topic for the project. Topics ranged from items targeting those with a more general or teaching interest through to those with mathematics background. You could get through the Masters level course without picking on anything too heavy mathematically. (This might have changed).
In the case of this particular exercise the topic was a given as was the simulator to run things in. I had an engineering mathematics base and some experience in simulation to build on; so I went with this topic.
3 Brad // Mar 3, 2010 at 3:12 am
Cheers for all the information.
I’ve just started the SAO course, and was looking for some examples of projects to help guide me in what they were looking for (I got told they didn’t provide example projects).
Cheers again.
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