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When to Use Dark Matter Rotation Curves 3D Explorer - Best Sessions and Limits


Open the Dark Matter Rotation Curves 3D Explorer when you need to teach or review the rotation-curve evidence for dark matter - without running a gravitational simulation.


A five-minute classroom demo

A five-minute classroom demo starts when you open the explorer, drag the radius slider through about 2, 8, and 20 kpc while students read the observed-versus-predicted numbers, then toggle the halo off and on to separate the measured curve from the inferred mass.


Separating measured facts from illustrative modeling

Separating measured facts from illustrative modeling gets easier when you compare the observed-curve figures - direct Milky Way measurements - against the predicted curve, which is an illustrative Keplerian-decline shape rather than a per-galaxy measured number.


Sessions Dark Matter Rotation Curves 3D Explorer does not fit

Sessions this page does not fit are precise dark-matter density-profile fitting, N-body galaxy simulations, or what a galaxy looks like visually. Use Galaxy 3D Explorer for a freely spinnable generic spiral shape, or Milky Way Map 3D Explorer for the labeled top-down arm map. Walk the controls in the Dark Matter Rotation Curves 3D Explorer step-by-step guide.

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