Education Physics

Science/Physics/Education is for EDUCATIONAL web sites of interest to educators, parents, students and professionals emphasizing the teaching or learning of various aspects of physics or physical science. The best sites will try to teach or instruct about physics or physical science, though clear, easy-to-follow explanations of topics are useful as well. This category is not for software or selling of products.

• The Science of the Bicycle - 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
  
• Simple Electric Motors - Summary of science projects by Stan Pozmantir, a junior secondary student. Easy-to-build and inexpensive electric motors utilizing many physics principles.
  
• Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP) - A non-profit organization of teachers, educators, and physicists; at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
  
• HyperPhysics Concepts - A concept map of physics showing relationships between topics while giving explanations and references.
  
• The World of Beams (Both Energy and Particle) - Explores the nature of particle beams, laser beams, and related physics topics.
  
• World Year of Physics 2005 - 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.
  
• International Physics Olympiads - Regional and international physics olympiads. Information, mailing lists, and links to all the IPhO problems available on the web.
  
• Practical Physics - Enables teachers of physics to share their skills and experience of making experiments work in the classroom.
  
• The Motion Mountain Physics Text - A free physics textbook on the introductory physics course level, written to be surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking. Chapters are downloadable pdf files.
  
• Society of Physics Students (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.
  
• NSTA - Position Statement on Laboratory Science - 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.
  
• Science-Pseudoscience - Science, non-science and pseudoscience: a set of lessons to teach students to define and differentiate the three.
  
• GRE Physics Prep - Yahoo group for people preparing for GRE Physics.
  
• Physics 2000 - An interactive journey through modern physics. Have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th century science and high-tech devices. Uses java applets.
  
• ie-Physics - 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.
  
• Animations of Wave Motion - Animated GIFs and a discussion of some of the math involved.
  
• UMPERG: Minds-On Physics (MOP) - 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.
  
• Physics, the Neglected Science - Pages to help increase awareness about the value of physics and to lend support to high school physics students, teachers, and parents.
  
• Static Electricity - Scientific explanation of the phenomenon of static electricity.
  
• Cartoons and Movies - Some diagrams and movies illustrating some otherwise abstract electrical principles.
  
• Physics for Beginners - 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.
  
• Assessing-to-Learn (A2L) - A research project on the use of continuous formative assessment in the high-school physics classroom. Provides participating teachers with a library of assessment items (carefully constructed questions) to choose from for their classes, and with an assoc
  
• Dropping In a Microgravity Environment (DIME) - Teacher's guide for a NASA high-school student science competition. [PDF]
  
• APS - Division of Physics of Beams - History of beam physics research, and current information on the topic.
  
• The Physics of Learning - 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 meth
  
• The Quantum Exchange - A collection of information and resources for teachers of quantum physics.
  
• Andes Physics Tutor - 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.
  
• Radiation Physics and Radiocarbon Research Labs at University College Dublin - Specialises in the measurement of minute traces of artificial and natural radionuclides in the environment.
  
• The Physics Encyclopedia - This site provides exhaustive, comprehensive, carefully selected and structured lists on Internet physics resources.
  
• Study Help Zone - Offers study support for physics and chemistry students. Includes online tutoring, physics help and problems, chemistry help, and advice for students sitting examinations.
  
• QuarkNet - 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 tea
  
• How Atoms Work - Shows how man determined the structure of the atom and learned how atoms interacted with each other.
  
• Physics Comics - Comics-style lessons in physics fundamentals. Topics include motion, forces, vectors, work and energy, and impulse and momentum.
  
• FYKOS - Physical Correspondence Seminary - Worldwide competition in physics for grammar school (under age 19) students with an interest in physics.
  
• Physical Science for Nonscientists - Physics 1020 (2nd Semester) - Course website at University of Colorado. Includes lecture notes in pdf format.
  
• The Sound of Solitary Waves - Physicists have demonstrated the first acoustic solitary waves in air--waves that can travel long distances without changing shape.
  
• A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics - A web text by David J. Raymond.
  
• Interactive Physics Scenarios by A. John Mallinckrodt - 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.
  
• Physical Science Resource Center (PSRC) - This site has plenty of resources for physics and physical science teachers K-16.
  
• Physics Simulations in Education - ZIP-format files for DOS or Windows covering a variety of physics phenomena and applications.
  
• Institute of Physics (IOP) - Teaching Physics in Schools and Colleges - 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, n [PDF]
  
• Bicycle Physics - The physics of how to steer a bicycle, and how stop signs interfere with bicycle commuting.
  
• Teralab - Descriptions and photographs of electrostatics, electron bombardment and wave experiments done with home equipment.
  
• Physics at Merton College - 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.
  
• The Elements of Machines - Some simple machines, explained, described and illustrated.
  
• PADs - 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.
  
• Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) - 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Select Physics Topics - This physics online ebook covers basic physics from Newton's laws to electricity and magnetism. Lots of applets and animation included.
  
• Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics - 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.
  
• MIT OpenCourseWare - Physics - Undergraduate and graduate courses available for noncredit study and review. Materials provided may include syllabi, reading assignments, videotaped lectures, problem sets with solutions, lecture notes, and exams with solutions.
  
• New Physics Teacher Project - Advice for the first year physics teacher gathered from interviews with expert physics educators.
  
• Spacetime Wrinkles - 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.
  
• Bad Physics - Misunderstood things in physics with simple explanations.
  
• The Evil Tutor's Guide: Graphs and Figures - An amusing, yet sincere, look at where students go wrong when producing scientific graphs for school, college and degree level work.
  
• Physics Simulations - Teaching Programs - Free and commercial site with physics programs and some other materials available for download and/or sale. No Macintosh materials offered.
  
• 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.
  
• Computer Simulation Methods - 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.
  
• Physics Laws and Quizzes - Solve some problems using the fundamental laws and be announced as a Quiz Master.
  
• Communities for Physics and Astronomy Digital Resources in Education (comPADRE) - 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 wi
  
• Interactive Textbook - College freshman-level physics textbook online in several different formats, notably a java-interactive format.
  
• Exploring Physics in Cyberspace - 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.
  
• How Everything Works - 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.
  
• Kenny Felder's Math and Physics Help Page - A collection of papers written to explain various concepts in math and physics, as well as papers generously donated by other people.
  
• Intuitor - Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics - Reviews and rates Hollywood movies for bad physics content.
  
• How to Study Physics - A University of Texas classic, written before the web was around, but now revised and web-ready.
  
• HSC Physics - 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.
  
• Thermal and Statistical Physics Curriculum Development Project - Includes an introduction to the project and its conferences, related papers and links, and some Java applets.
  
• Art Ludwig's Sound Page - Various explorations of sound, sound detection and sound measurement. Includes a section on physics of sound.
  
• West Point Bridge Design Contest - 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.
  
• Open Source Physics - The OSP project seeks to create and distribute curricular material for physics computation and physics education at all levels.
  
• A Prelude to the Study of Physics - A paper first published in Quantum Vol 7 No 2, pg. 45, Nov/Dec 1996.
  
• Advancing Physics AS/A2 Level Course from the Institute of Physics - Provides resources for Teachers, Students and Technicians involved in the study of AS or A2 Level Physics.
  
• Professor Stephen Hawking Online - Biographical, educational, and scholarly. Also includes a bit of fun (did you know he was on The Simpsons TV show?)
  
• Astrophysics Science Project Integrating Research and Education (ASPIRE) - Site dedicated to helping teachers with lessons in physics and astrophysics by giving computer activities that help show how physical models work.
  
• Essential Physics - A book for first-year college students who have an interest in pursuing a career in physics or a closely related field.
  
• Mathematical Thinking in Physics - Articles, essays, and problems designed for students to learn more about the importance of math in the study and application of physics.
  
• ISU Physics Teacher Education Program - From Illinois State University.
  
• Challenges In Teaching and Learning Introductory Physics - Addresses the troubles presented in introductory physics courses taken by students in their first two years of college.
  
• Henry Greenside's Duke Physics Challenges - Physics-related word-problem puzzles.
  
• Beginner and Intermediate Electronics - Basic electronics explained using simple theory and diagrams.
  
• Physics Central - 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
  
• Super Physics - Provides educational articles about physics including such topics as relativity, quantum theory and lasers as well as general physics.
  
• Space Station Phyve - 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.
  
• Physics Reference - Physics symbols, constants, and SI units, prefixes and rules.
  
• Physics Pointers - Physics reading guides, links to physics websites, teaching tips, and physics activities.
  
• I Love Physics Forum - Discuss physics education and related topics that come up in discussions about physics.
  
• Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST - The values of the fundamental physical constants provided at this site are recommended for international use by CODATA and are the latest available.
  
• Physics Virtual Bookshelf - A collection mostly of University of Toronto physics professor David M. Harrison's various presentations and course materials.
  
• Physics Handbook.com - Provides an easy to use online physics textbook including laws, tables, experiments, a quiz and videos.
  
• Space and Time - 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.
  
• Todd's Quantum Intro - A brief overview of quantum mechanics.
  
• School Mathematics and Science Programs Benefit From Instructional Technology - NSF report summarizes key findings about mathematics and science in controlled evaluations of instructional technology in elementary and secondary schools.
  
• Web Physics Project - 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 prov
  
• Glass: Liquid or Solid - Science vs. an Urban Legend - Addressing the widespread misconception according to which glass is a liquid.
  
• TYC Physics Workshops - Information about workshops provided for two-year or community college physics teachers and the products of this project.
  
  

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