file: iart-talks.txt = student presentations NS-252B = IART
last: Nov 22 2005 
site: https://robrutten.nl/education/rutten-courses

instruction
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  topics = phenomena described by Minnaert in 
           "De natuurkunde van het vrije veld"

  also look up references given by Minnaert 
  also search with Google and ADS
    http://www.google.com
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/default_service.html
  also check newer book comparable to Minnaert I:
    Lynch & Livingston: Color and Light in Nature (and references in there)
  also check the Astronomy Picture of the Day archive for pictures:
    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

  prepare a 5 min presentation on your topic
    in English
    2-4 viewgraphs or viewscreens

  goal: serious treatment, both understandable and interesting to your 
        co-students

example topics treated so far
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  The colour of the sky
  Scintillation of stars and planets
  Rainbows
  The green flash
  Halo phenomena
  Hillingar effect (opdoeming)
  Sundogs (bijzonnen)
  Terrestrial ray bending (straalkromming)
  Ball lightning
  Shape of sun and moon at rise and setting
  Aurorae (noorderlicht)
  Cherenkov radiation          
  Lunar eclipse 
  Corona around the moon
  Blue sun and moon 
  Is the Mars sky blue?
  Why are there no green stars?
  Twilight 
  Alpengluehen  
  Flying saucers
  Mirages
  The moon illusion
  The black drop
  Zodiacal light
  Colours of shadows

 

some topics and references
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  Sofer_and_Lynch_AmJPhys_1999.pdf in ~rutten/rr/wrt/papers/Onderwijs
  = vision sensitivity does not equal solar energy distribution


websites Sylvain Rondi
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  http://astrosurf.com/rondi/venus.htm
  http://astrosurf.com/maury/images/Venus/index.html
  http://astrosurf.com/rondi/chili/halos.htm
  http://astrosurf.com/rondi/brocken.htm
  http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rondi/techoueyre/couronne/index.htm
  http://astrosurf.com/rondi/venus2004/index.htm