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  • How Far
    • Preface
    • Chapter 1: The Solar System
      • Earth
      • Solar System
      • Heliosphere
    • Chapter 2: The Milky Way
      • Nearby Stars
      • Distant Stars
      • Planetary Nebula
      • Star Clusters and Supernova
      • Star Birth Nebula
      • Milky Way
    • Chapter 3: Galaxies
      • Andromeda and the Local Group
      • Local Galaxy Volume
      • Virgo Supercluster
      • Local Superclusters
      • Colliding Galaxies
      • Cosmos
    • Credits and Research Topics
  • How Small
    • Preface
    • The Microscopic
    • The Atom
    • Elementary Particles
    • The Higgs Boson
    • Superposition and Quantum Entanglement
    • How Small Is It – Credits and Research
  • How Fast
    • Preface
    • The Speed of Light
    • Special Relativity
    • General Relativity I – Geometry
    • General Relativity II – Effects
    • Gravitational Lensing
    • Black Holes
    • Gravitational Waves
    • Credits and Research
  • How Old
    • Preface
    • Cosmology Fundamentals
    • Big Bang ΛCDM Cosmology
    • How Old Are Stars
    • How Old is the Earth-Moon System
    • How Old is the Solar System
    • Credits and Research
  • The Math
  • Updates
    • 2023 Review
    • 2022 Review
    • 2021 Review and Mars Update
    • 2020 Review & The JWST
    • 2019 Review & M87 Black Hole Image
    • 2018 Update & Brown Dwarfs
    • 2017 Update & Gamma-Ray Bursts
    • 2016 Update
    • 2015 Update
    • 2014 Update
    • 2013 Update
  • Classroom Aids
    • Mathematical Foundations
    • Relativity
    • Quantum Mechanics
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    • Cosmology
    • Concept Index
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Classroom Video Aids

This website organizes the “How Far Away Is It” YouTube channel into video content for classroom use. It includes basic non-mathematical videos for general science classes from middle school to college along with documents and lesson plans. A concept index is provided for shorter video aids on narrower topics.

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Video Books

There are currently four video books

 
  • How Far Away Is It
  • How Small Is It
  • How Fast Is It
  • How Old Is It
 

Each book tells a story with all the evidence for each step included.

Classroom Aids

 

Hundreds of short classroom ready clips:

  • Astronomy
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Relativity Theory
  • Cosmology
 

Video books are created as a playlist of relevant classroom aid clips.

Documentation

 

Documents:

  • Astronomy
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Relativity Theory
  • Big Bang Cosmology

Every chapter in every video book has an associated document with the video text, music, and additional information.

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