Analysing Gravitational Waves from LIGO (TEST)
Learn about gravitational waves, why detecting them is so hard, and what the LIGO data can tell us about black holes
Resources
Eratosthenes Experiment (Primary, UK) - TEST
Students will measure the Earth’s circumference based on Eratosthenes’ experiment, which he carried out at 3rd century B.C.
LIGO and the Quest for Gravitational Waves (UK)
In this activity students will follow step by step the discovery of gravitational waves!
They will be exposed to the modern theory of Gravity of Einstein in a pedagogically consistent manner and then investigate the parameters needed in order to build a gravitational wave detector sensitive enough to measure tiny signals such as this measured by the LIGO experiment in September 2015.