tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/225709000 2007-12-19 13:01:24 -0500 MIT News Office <p>Voyager's passage through the termination shock is illustrated in this animation. The solar wind is shown in yellow, and the heliosheath in brown. The animation shows how Voyager crossed the boundary multiple times. The blue graph at top shows the plasma data readings from which this passage was reconstructed (the gap shows an interval when no data was received).</p><p>More: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/voyager-1210.html">MIT instrument finds surprises at solar system's edge </a></p><p>Video animation / John Belcher and Mark Bessette, MIT </p> 16 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/225687920 2007-12-19 12:53:39 -0500 MIT News Office <div>This animation illustrates how the constant outflow of particles from the sun, called the solar wind, interacts with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). Where the outflow first encounters the ISM, it forms a shockwave called the termination shock--the boundary that Voyager 2 just crossed. It is now in the intermediate zone, called the heliosheath, where the two regions interact. Within the next few years, it will cross another boundary, called the heliopause, where the sun's influence ends. </div><div>More: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/voyager-1210.html">MIT instrument finds surprises at solar system's edge </a></div><div>Video animation / John Belcher and Mark Bessette, MIT <br /></div> 5 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/226788820 2008-06-06 10:18:22 -0400 MIT Alumni Association What's needed to address the global energy challenge? New technologies, new sources of capital, and new ways of thinking. See highlights from the <a href="http://mitenergyconference.techtv.mit.edu/">2008 MIT Energy Conference</a>, and find out how MIT is playing a vital role in finding energy solutions. 467 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/226767840 2009-08-19 11:28:08 -0400 MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group Two demonstrators sit at either end of a rotating platform and toss a ball back and forth. When viewed from the rest frame (when the camera is mounted to the ground), the ball follow a straight line but doesn't reach its target because during the ball's flight the target rotates away. When viewed from the rotating frame (when the camera is mounted to the rotating platform), the ball appears to experience a force that pulls it away from the target. <br><br> This curved trajectory in the rotating frame is known as the "Coriolis Effect", sometimes called the "Coriolis Force", though it disappears in the rest frame. The Coriolis Effect can be seen in many situations where rotating frames are encountered, especially meteorology and astronomy. Atmospheric systems, for example, often follow circular patterns due to the Coriolis effect. Airplanes and missiles appear to follow curved trajectories when seen by observers on Earth as the planet rotates underneath. 181 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/226746900 2009-10-27 13:23:59 -0400 Technology & Culture Forum at MIT William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer<br><i>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind</i><br>Recorded on 10/21/2009 4643 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/226725740 2009-11-10 10:23:05 -0500 Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies (BLOSSOMS) BLOSSOMS - Wind and Sand<br>Dr. Khalaf Abd Al Aziz and Dr. Borhan Al Biss<br>Jordan University of Science and Technology. Irbid - Jordan 2856