The Search for Exoplanets: A Capstone Project in Service Learning and Outreach

• Avery Archer ^[1] ; David Sederberg ^[1] ; Guna Kondapaneni ^[1] ; Philip Sands ^[1]
  1. [1] Purdue University

     Purdue University

     Township of Wabash, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 58, Nº. 5, 2020, págs. 356-358
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Search for Exoplanets is an interactive computer simulation, the product of a collaboration between the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science at Purdue University. Our goal was to create a computer simulation that would introduce students to scientific principles, research methodology, and analysis of data with which planets in another solar systems are discovered and characterized. We sought to create a simulation that would be engaging, realistic, an accurate model of research, and appropriate to the level of knowledge and abilities for a monthly outreach program, Saturday Morning Astrophysics at Purdue.