- Amusement Park Physics - http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/
Explores how the laws of physics play a role in the design of amusement park rides. Activities invite visitors to design a roller coaster and determine the outcomes of bumper car collisions. Links to related sites are provided.
- Web Physics Project - http://webphysics.davidson.edu/
A flexible low budget outlet for small volume, high quality, HTML-based curricular material. It provides a forum for physics educators to exchange curriculum ideas and resources that make use of web technology (primarily public domain material), and provides a medium for the dissemination of student work.
- Computer Simulation Methods - http://sip.clarku.edu/
A web site devoted to faculty and students using computer simulation techniques as a method of discovery in physics. This is a companion site to a textbook, but provides content from other sources as well.
- Interactive Textbook - http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/mathphys/Contents.html
College freshman-level physics textbook online in several different formats, notably a java-interactive format.
- The Sound of Solitary Waves - http://focus.aps.org/story/v4/st24
Physicists have demonstrated the first acoustic solitary waves in air--waves that can travel long distances without changing shape.
- The Elements of Machines - http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html
Some simple machines, explained, described and illustrated.
- Physics for Beginners - http://physics.webplasma.com/
An introduction to some concepts in physics for the absolute beginner. Included is a equation solver which is for use with the Physics For Beginners section.
- TYC Physics Workshops - http://tycphysics.org/
Information about workshops provided for two-year or community college physics teachers and the products of this project.
- Bad Physics - http://www.geoffers2000.freeserve.co.uk/
Misunderstood things in physics with simple explanations.
- Physics 2000 - http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl
An interactive journey through modern physics. Have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th century science and high-tech devices. Uses java applets.
- Physics Laws and Quizzes - http://members.tripod.com/arilizi/
Solve some problems using the fundamental laws and be announced as a Quiz Master.
- Space Station Phyve - http://www.geocities.com/r_deruvo/
A WebQuest for high school physics and MST students to research and design a rotating space colony. This highly scientific mission contains links and teacher rubric.
- International Physics Olympiads - http://www.geocities.com/links2ipho/
Regional and international physics olympiads. Information, mailing lists, and links to all the IPhO problems available on the web.
- Teralab - http://www.rhunt.f9.co.uk/
Descriptions and photographs of electrostatics, electron bombardment and wave experiments done with home equipment.
- Physics Comics - http://www.bmts.com/~stoeckli/
Comics-style lessons in physics fundamentals. Topics include motion, forces, vectors, work and energy, and impulse and momentum.
- Society of Physics Students (SPS) - http://www.aip.org/education/sps/
Complete set of information for members of any level of SPS. Scholarships and awards, news, activities, staff, structure, online forms, student resources, and links to significant physics sites.
- Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST - http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html
The values of the fundamental physical constants provided at this site are recommended for international use by CODATA and are the latest available.
- Science-Pseudoscience - http://www.chem1.com/chemed/flimflam.html
Science, non-science and pseudoscience: a set of lessons to teach students to define and differentiate the three.
- Physics Simulations - Teaching Programs - http://www.colba.net/~htran/physics/
Free and commercial site with physics programs and some other materials available for download and/or sale. No Macintosh materials offered.
- The Physics Encyclopedia - http://members.tripod.com/~IgorIvanov/physics/
This site provides exhaustive, comprehensive, carefully selected and structured lists on Internet physics resources.
- Static Electricity - http://www.electrostatics.com/page2.html
Scientific explanation of the phenomenon of static electricity.
- HyperPhysics Concepts - http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
A concept map of physics showing relationships between topics while giving explanations and references.
- Spacetime Wrinkles - http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html
Major advances in computation are only now enabling scientists to simulate how black holes form, evolve, and interact. Learn about relativity and its predictions through text and video files at this site.
- New Physics Teacher Project - http://earthfuture.tripod.com/mp/adviceproject.html
Advice for the first year physics teacher gathered from interviews with expert physics educators.
- The Physics of Learning - http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/instruments/PHYSLRNR.html
Extending a physics analogy to teaching and learning creates a rich set of terms and relationships that are already familiar to scientists. This paper defines those terms, suggests methods for quantifying those terms and thus provides teachers with a method for optimizing student learning.
- Physics, the Neglected Science - http://intuitor.com/physics/index.html
Pages to help increase awareness about the value of physics and to lend support to high school physics students, teachers, and parents.
- QuarkNet - http://quarknet.fnal.gov/
Supports centers at 60 universities and laboratories that are participants in the collider experiments at CERN in Switzerland and at Fermilab in Illinois. Physicists will mentor and collaborate with high school teachers. Stipends are provided to the teachers who participate.
- Essential Physics - http://www.physicsforfree.com/essential.html
A book for first-year college students who have an interest in pursuing a career in physics or a closely related field.
- Physics at Merton College - http://www.lokon.demon.co.uk/
Matters related to the AS-level & A-level physics courses. The material covers topics in physics and its related mathematics and will supplement one's normal classwork.
- The Motion Mountain Physics Text - http://motionmountain.dse.nl/welcome.html
A free physics textbook on the introductory physics course level, written to be surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking. Chapters are downloadable pdf files.
- How Things Work - http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW//
A service providing answers to questions about physics, science, and how things in the world around us work. Companion to the book by the same name.
- Kenny Felder's Math and Physics Help Page - http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/kenny/home.html
A collection of papers written to explain various concepts in math and physics, as well as papers generously donated by other people.
- Physics Central - http://www.physicscentral.org/
The outreach site of the members of The American Physical Society. Find out how physics is part of your world, ask questions on how things work, see physics in pictures, get updates on physics in the news, read about research and the people who are doing it and, if you want more, recommended links.
- How Atoms Work - http://www.howstuffworks.com/atom.htm
Shows how man determined the structure of the atom and learned how atoms interacted with each other.
- Physics Courseware Communicator - http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/physics/PCEP/www/PCC/PCC.html
Published quarterly by the Physics Courseware Evaluation Project (PCEP) in the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University. This newsletter describes physics educational software of interest to physics teachers at many levels of instruction.
- Bicycle Physics Online - http://www.science.uva.nl/research/amstel/bicycle/partic/Bart/Project/
Divided in two parts. The first is a theory study and the second is a report of the experiment. This study was done as a part of The Bicycle Project from September till December 1999. The research was done at the Kansas State University's department of physics.
- Bicycle Physics - http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/bicycles.html
The physics of how to steer a bicycle, and how stop signs interfere with bicycle commuting.
- Cartoons and Movies - http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/cartoons/
Some diagrams and movies illustrating some otherwise abstract electrical principles.
- Physics Reference - http://www.alcyone.com/max/reference/physics/index.html
Physics symbols, constants, and SI units, prefixes and rules.
- Interactive Physics Scenarios by A. John Mallinckrodt - http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm/myweb/index.ip.html
A collection of intermediate and advanced level modules in mechanics, gravitation, thermodynamics, and electrostatics for use with the Interactive Physics software distributed by MSC Working Knowledge.
- UMPERG: Minds-On Physics (MOP) - http://umperg.physics.umass.edu/projects/MindsOnPhysics/
A one-year curriculum for high-school physics. It is the result of a materials-development project supported by the National Science Foundation, and its design was guided by educational research findings.
- Animations of Wave Motion - http://physics.usask.ca/~hirose/ep225/anim.htm
Animated GIFs and a discussion of some of the math involved.
- Select Physics Topics - http://www.science-ebooks.com/phy/select_physics_topics.htm
This physics online ebook covers basic physics from Newton's laws to electricity and magnetism. Lots of applets and animation included.
- NSTA - Position Statement on Laboratory Science - http://www.nsta.org/159&psid=16
Since the laboratory experience is of critical importance in the process of enhancing students' cognitive and affective understanding of science, the National Science Teachers Association makes the following recommendations.
- Physics First - http://members.aol.com/physicsfirst/
For the past 130 years, physics has been an integral part of science curriculum at the high school level. Its current vertical position, established about 100 years ago, is now strongly challenged.
- Assessing-to-Learn (A2L) - http://a2l.physics.umass.edu/
A research project on the use of continuous formative assessment in the high-school physics classroom. The website provides participating teachers with a library of assessment items (carefully constructed questions) to choose from for their classes, and with an associated library of teacher aids which provide help with the pedagogically effective use of the items.
- Professor Stephen Hawking Online - http://www.hawking.org.uk/
Biographical, educational, and scholarly. Also includes a bit of fun (did you know he was on The Simpsons TV show?)
- Physics Simulations in Education - http://www.clab.unibe.ch/physim/index.htm
ZIP-format files for DOS or Windows covering a variety of physics phenomena and applications.
- Art Ludwig's Sound Page - http://www.silcom.com/~aludwig/
Various explorations of sound, sound detection and sound measurement. Includes a section on physics of sound.
- Exploring Physics in Cyberspace - http://web.missouri.edu/~wwwepic/
This site describes several tested extracurricular programs geared to introducing hands-on interactive physics activities for K-12 students. Supported by the National Science Foundation.
- Space and Time - http://info.hartwick.edu/physics/spacetime.html
Course based on Stephen Hawking's best selling book, "A Brief History of Time". The course deals with topics in modern physics such as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, Quantum Theory, Black Holes and the Creation of the Universe.
- Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics - http://math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/
This page describes the errors seen most frequently in undergraduate mathematics, the likely causes of those errors, and their remedies. Avoid these errors in order to improve in any math-intensive course, including physics.
- Sea World Physics - http://www.seaworld.org/just%2Dfor%2Dteachers/guides/physics/to%2Dthe%2Dteacher.htm
Lesson plans, activities and objectives helpful to establish an understanding of the following physics concepts: velocity, acceleration, buoyancy and free fall.
- Physics Equations and Constants - http://members.fortunecity.co.uk/aceventura/
A concise guide to equations and lists of constants and basic facts at the high school level, sorted by topic.
- HSC Physics - http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/hsc/
School of Physics, University of New South Wales. Details about professional development workshops for physics teachers intended to provide background and advice on the Stage 6 HSC syllabus. Some resources related to this workshop are found on the site.
- The Evil Tutor's Guide: Graphs and Figures - http://www.psreporter.com/evil/eviltutor0.html
An amusing, yet sincere, look at where students go wrong when producing scientific graphs for school, college and degree level work.
- Librys.com - Physics Problems - http://www.librys.com/physicsproblems/
Find links to problems, programs, and resources for physics students in high school or college
- How to Study Physics - http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/chapman.htm
A University of Texas classic, written before the web was around, but now revised and web-ready.
- BasicElectronics.com - http://home.att.net/~basicelectronics/
Explanations of electronics. Volts, ohms, amperes, and basic circuits. Includes calculators and reference materials.
- Communities for Physics and Astronomy Digital Resources in Education (comPADRE) - http://www.compadre.org/
A project to create well organized, digital collections of high quality educational materials in physics and astronomy. ComPADRE consists of focused collections of materials for specific courses or serving specific constituencies, with connections to a wide range of online digital resources including curricular materials, digital libraries, and online journals, user communities that participate in the development and operation of these collections.
- Mathematical Thinking in Physics - http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/index.htm
Articles, essays, and problems designed for students to learn more about the importance of math in the study and application of physics.
- Practical Physics - http://www.practicalphysics.org/
Enables teachers of physics to share their skills and experience of making experiments work in the classroom.
- Institute of Physics (IOP) - Teaching Physics - http://teachingphysics.iop.org/
A website aimed at those with an interest in the teaching and learning of physics in schools and colleges. The site provides visitors with information about the current activities of the IOP education department including details of forthcoming events, news about the institute’s latest curriculum development initiatives as well as providing access to a range of resources.
- I Love Physics Forum - http://www.ilovephysics.com/forum/
Discuss physics education and related topics that come up in discussions about physics.
- Physics Roller Coaster Engineering Competition - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~tbp/projects/roller.htm
Students will build small models of roller coasters that transport ball bearings. Students will compete for trophies. Site has full details.
- Open Text - http://www3.baylor.edu/Physics/open_text/
Project to provide high quality free physics teaching materials to anyone who has access to the Internet. Similar to the “open source” concept for computer software. A cooperative building site for physics materials.
- GRE Physics Prep - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/physicsgre/
Yahoo group for people preparing for GRE Physics.
- World Year of Physics 2005 - http://www.physics2005.org/
Plans to bring the excitement of physics to the public and inspire a new generation of scientists. Includes information about projects, events and Einstein, sources for teachers, downloads, international links and press room.
- Simple Electric Motors - http://www.simplemotor.com/
Summary of science projects by Stan Pozmantir, a junior secondary student. Easy-to-build and inexpensive electric motors utilizing many physics principles.
- The Quantum Exchange - http://thequantumexchange.net/
A collection of information and resources for teachers of quantum physics.
- West Point Bridge Design Contest - http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/
Bridge design contest (using specialized software) run a service to education and as a tribute to the U.S. Military Academy's two hundred years of service to the United States of America. U.S. students age 13 through grade 12 are eligible for prizes. Anyone else may enter the Open Competition. Overview, rules, resources, software download and FAQ.
- Interactive Physics Review System - http://why2.lrdc.pitt.edu/physrev.htm
A study aid for some basic Newtonian physics concepts that come up early in a student's study of basic college level physics.
- The Physics Of... - http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/TomRobinson/physicspages/PhysicsOf.html
1996-2001 school year Kentridge High School student research into the physics of various common objects.
- Andes Physics Tutor - http://www.andes.pitt.edu/
Andes is an intelligent tutoring system which teaches students how to solve physics problems. It provides a complete set of homework problems for an Introductory College Physics course or a high school AP physics course.
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