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This paper describes the UV continuum radiation in the range from 1400 to 3700 of radio galaxies. Ó The analysis is deferred to the next paper in this series. The sample of radio galaxies was compiled by searching the Hubble Space Telescope (HST ) archives for images taken with the Faint Object Camera (FOC) prior to 1993. Altogether the sample consists of 30 3C and Parkes radio galaxies that have redshifts below 0.2 (the majority have redshifts of D0.03) and radio powers of D1025h27 WHz~1 (using km s~1 Mpc~1 and H 0 \ 50 q 0 \ 0.0). We show the FOC contour plots of the radio galaxies and calculate the UV Ñuxes and magnitudes within the standard HST medium and wide Ðlter bands (F130M, F140M, F152M, F165W, F170M, F190M, F231M, F320W, F342M, and F372M). We detect UV emission at wavelengths ¹2300 only Ó for FR II galaxies that are broad emission line galaxies BLRGs and for FR I galaxies that have optical jets, that are BL Lac objects or that are BLRGs. The UV magnitudes range from 15.0 to 18.0, and the Ñuxes range from 10~28.5 to 10~30.5 W m~2 Hz~1. For sources without UV emission, upper limits are typically D19.0 mag or D10~31 W m~2 Hz~1.We model the UV emission by assuming a combination of a point source (the nuclear component excluding the jet) and an extended galaxy component. We Ðnd that the nuclear contribution at wavelengths ¹2300 is close to 100% for BL Lacs and BLRGs and ranges from 20% to 70% for FR I Ó galaxies with optical jets. At longer wavelengths º3100 the nuclear contribution tends to be less (not Ó, for BL Lacs which are still dominated by the nuclear component) and extended UV components are detected for all FR I and FR II galaxies in the sample.We compare the structure of the extended UV emission to optical (mostly R-band HST -WFPC2) images. At wavelengths ¹2300 the extended UV emission looks roughly spherical and shows some Ó, di †erences to the optical structure. Thus, we speculate that scattered light is an important contributor to the extended UV light wavelengths ¹2300At wavelengths º3100 the extended UV and the Ó.Ó, optical images are roughly comparable although somewhat "" blobbier.ÏÏ Thus, the extended Ñux at wavelengths º3100 is probably due to hot stars. However, since some of the polarization images show Ó di †erences in the UV emission, scattered light from the active galactic nuclei may also contribute.

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Physics students are intrigued by activities in space. To link this natural curiosity with solid problem-solving skills, we developed a spreadsheet simulation for satellites moving through an atmosphere of variable density. The simulation-laboratory has been used in U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) introductory physics classes for several semesters. Spreadsheet variants have also been used in a USAFA advanced division space physics class, a high school advanced placement physics class, and in the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling graduate summer school course.