Open Directory - Science: Physics: Education
This category in other languages: - A paper by Robert J. Sciamanda, first published in Quantum Vol 7 No 2, pg. 45, Nov/Dec 1996. - History of beam physics research, and current information on the topic. - 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. - Animated GIFs and a discussion of some of the math involved. - Various explorations of sound, sound detection and sound measurement. Includes a section on physics of sound. - Site dedicated to helping teachers with lessons in physics and astrophysics by giving computer activities that help show how physical models work. - Misunderstood things in physics with simple explanations. - The physics of how to steer a bicycle, and how stop signs interfere with bicycle commuting. - Some diagrams and movies illustrating some otherwise abstract electrical principles. - Addresses the troubles presented in introductory physics courses taken by students in their first two years of college. - 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. - 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. - 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. - A non-profit organization of teachers, educators, and physicists; at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. - Educational website offering thousands of courses, books and video lectures by the world's top scholars. - NASA high-school and middle school student team science competition. Teams build microgravity experiments for a NASA drop tower. - A book for first-year college students who have an interest in pursuing a career in physics or a closely related field. - 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. - Worldwide competition in physics for grammar school (under age 19) students with an interest in physics. - The values of the fundamental physical constants provided at this site are recommended for international use by CODATA and are the latest available. - Yahoo group for people preparing for GRE Physics. - Addressing the widespread misconception according to which glass is a liquid. - 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. - Physics-related word-problem puzzles. - Shows how man determined the structure of the atom and learned how atoms interacted with each other. - A service providing answers to questions about physics, science, and how things in the world around us work. Companion to the book by Louis Bloomfield called How Things Work. - 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. - A University of Texas classic, written before the web was around, but now revised and web-ready. - A concept map of physics showing relationships between topics while giving explanations and references. - Discuss physics education and related topics that come up in discussions about physics. - Several recent developments have stimulated a major revitalization of UIUC's introductory physics curriculum. Here are the details. Also includes references, previous presentations, and course outlines. - 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. - Regional and international physics olympiads. Information, mailing lists, and links to all the IPhO problems available on the web. - Reviews and rates Hollywood movies for bad physics content. - A collection of papers written to explain various concepts in math and physics, as well as papers generously donated by other people. - Articles, essays, and problems designed for students to learn more about the importance of math in the study and application of physics. - Peer-reviewed online teaching and learning materials for physics. - 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. - The OSP project seeks to create and distribute curricular material for physics computation and physics education at all levels. - PADs are interactive Java applets that provide a wide range of ways to represent data and evaluate the correctness of those representations. This site provides exercises and resources on their use. - Provides physics animations, learning and reference tools for students and resources for teachers. The level is approximately that of introductory university or advanced high school. - This site has plenty of resources for physics and physical science teachers K-16. - Course website at University of Colorado. Includes lecture notes in pdf format. - An interactive journey through modern physics. Have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th century science and high-tech devices. Uses java applets. - 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. - Comics-style lessons in physics fundamentals. Topics include motion, forces, vectors, work and energy, and impulse and momentum. - Provides an easy to use online physics textbook including laws, tables, experiments, a quiz and videos. - Physics reading guides, links to physics websites, teaching tips, and physics activities. - Physics symbols, constants, and SI units, prefixes and rules. - Free and commercial site with physics programs and some other materials available for download and/or sale. No Macintosh materials offered. - Information on a BSc degree in physics teaching from Illinois State University. - A collection mostly of University of Toronto physics professor David M. Harrison's various presentations and course materials. - Matters related to the AS-level and A-level physics courses. The material covers topics in physics and its related mathematics and will supplement one's normal classwork. - Provides simple explanations for a number of physics, space and maths concepts, trying to break them down into stuff that actually makes sense. - Pages to help increase awareness about the value of physics and to lend support to high school physics students, teachers, and parents. - Enables teachers of physics to share their skills and experience of making experiments work in the classroom. - Biographical, educational, and scholarly. Also includes a bit of fun (did you know he was on The Simpsons TV show?) - 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. - Specialises in the measurement of minute traces of artificial and natural radionuclides in the environment. - NSF report summarizes key findings about mathematics and science in controlled evaluations of instructional technology in elementary and secondary schools. - Provides a number of Flash animations to supplement handbooks in physics, maths and technology. - Science, non-science and pseudoscience: a set of lessons to teach students to define and differentiate the three. - This physics online ebook covers basic physics from Newton's laws to electricity and magnetism. Lots of applets and animation included. - Summary of science projects by Stan Pozmantir, a junior secondary student. Easy-to-build and inexpensive electric motors utilizing many physics principles. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Offers free educational material for students preparing for various competitive physics examinations. Includes more than 100 flashlets, modules, test papers and theory lessons. - Scientific explanation of the phenomenon of static electricity. - Information about workshops provided for two-year or community college physics teachers and the products of this project. - Descriptions and photographs of electrostatics, electron bombardment and wave experiments done with home equipment. - Some simple machines, explained, described and illustrated. - An amusing, yet sincere, look at where students go wrong when producing scientific graphs for school, college and degree level work. - A free physics textbook on the introductory physics course level, written to be surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking. Chapters are downloadable pdf files. - This site provides exhaustive, comprehensive, carefully selected and structured lists on Internet physics resources. - 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. - A collection of information and resources for teachers of quantum physics. - 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. - Physicists have demonstrated the first acoustic solitary waves in air--waves that can travel long distances without changing shape. - Explores the nature of particle beams, laser beams, and related physics topics. - Includes an introduction to the project and its conferences, related papers and links, and some Java applets. - A brief overview of quantum mechanics. - 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. - 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. - Bridge design contest (using specialized software). 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. - 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. - Free experiment-based, web lessons in physics designed to provide a systematic introduction to physics. Emphasis is on the historical development of modern physics concepts, with understanding assisted by relevant activities and experiments.
