External Resource: Desk Top Stars: How far away is it? The Inverse Square Law

This activity is one of three on the Desk Top Stars site. In this section learners/students will actually measure how the brightness of a light depends on how far away it is. Topics include: NASA, inverse square law, luminosity, and graphing.

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Type External ResourcePub Date January 01, 1900Stock # ERNASA10_0026

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