How things work college course
- Category:Physics and Astronomy/Labs
Newtonian Physics
Labs in progress
- Physics and Astronomy Labs/Motion down an incline
- Air drag drop experiment
- Breaking broomstick demonstration
- Momentum transfer under elastic and inelastic collisions
Classical Physics
- Wikibooks:FHSST_Physics/Rectilinear_Motion/Graphs
Motion simple arithmetic quiz - Conceptual physics wikiquizzes
- How things work college course/Waves (Physics Classroom)
- Also: This quiz should be converted to Quizbank form: How_things_work_college_course/Conceptual_physics_wikiquizzes/Uniform_circular_motion
Modern Physics
- Quantum mechanics/Photoelectric effect/Quiz
- Quantum mechanics timeline
- Quantum mechanics timeline/Quiz
Physics in our lives
Industrial Revolution
- Wikipedia:Industrial_Revolution
- quiz (based on the permalink to the Wikipedia article)
Nuclear power
- Wikipedia:Nuclear_powerWikipedia Article
- LEDE-HISTORY quiz POWER PLANT - END quiz (index)
Global warming
- Wikipedia:Global_warming Wikipedia Article
- Global warming quizzes (based on the permalink to the Wikipedia article)
- Lab: Go to internet and find the rate at which Ohio warms as you travel south (degrees C per mile). Take .1 C per decade as nominal rate of global warming. How far south each year do you have to travel to achieve that rate? Note: One mile per year is within a factor of 2 of what we obtained.
- Berkeley Earth is affiliated by the highly trusted and respected Richard Muller.
- Muller's take on Climategate
- Muller on whether the pause is temporary or a new trend
- https://www2.ucar.edu/climate/faq/how-much-has-global-temperature-risen-last-100-years
- Wikipedia:Global_warming_controversy
- Wikipedia:List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming
Computer
- Wikipedia:Computer (See also Wikipedia:Turing machine * Wikipedia:Busy beaver * Wikipedia:Halting problem * Wikipedia:Bombe) (Wikipedia articles)
- Computer quiz
- Turing machine quiz ...(index to these two computer quizzes)
- Online turing machines: http://morphett.info/default.html http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/06/turing-test/ http://www.turinghub.com/
The Antikythera mechanism
- Wikipedia:Antikythera_mechanism
- Antikythera mechanism/Quizzes
- Wikipedia:Saros (astronomy)
- Orbital mechanics/Saros/Quiz 1
- Wikipedia:Ecliptic and Ecliptic/Quizzes/Gallery
- Ecliptic/Quizzes/Quiz 1
Ecliptic/Quizzes/Quiz 2 Will not be on How Things Work (may move to Astronomy)
Appendix
Units under construction
- Electricity and Field theory
- YouTube#Physics_and_Astronomy
- Hunting the Elements (PBS NOVA)
- Python journal
- How_things_work_college_course/Conceptual_physics_wikiquizzes/Uniform_circular_motion Needs major rewrite.
Units that will not be used (move to Astronomy)
Quizzes converted to quizbank form
already converted
- How things work college course/Conceptual physics wikiquizzes/Velocity and acceleration
- How_things_work_college_course/Motion simple arithmetic quiz
- Why_is_the_Sky_Dark_at_Night/quiz
- Quantum_mechanics/Photoelectric_effect/Quiz
- How things work college course/Quantum mechanics timeline/Quiz
- How_things_work_college_course/Industrial_Revolution_quiz
- How things work college course/Global warming quizzes
- How_things_work_college_course/Nuclear_power_quizzes
- How things work college course/Computer quiz
- How_things_work_college_course/Turing_machine_quiz
- Antikythera mechanism/Quizzes
- Orbital mechanics/Saros/Quiz 1
- Ecliptic/Quizzes/Quiz 1
need to convert
Ecliptic/Quizzes/Quiz 2 This quiz will be moved to Astronomy
Free online resources
- coursera.org/course/howthingswork1? (Free and of good quality. Some students found that he went too slowly.)
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/ (Looks excellent)
- Physics of Music (Michigan Tech)
- Physics Classroom
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