Portal:Physical Sciences

The Physical Sciences Portal

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Crab Nebula

Welcome to the Physical Sciences Portal! This page connects browsers to the learning materials that have been developed by the various Wikiversity Physical Sciences content development projects. This portal features exciting examples of Physical Sciences learning resources.

The content development projects are the schools, departments and divisions linked to from this page. Wikiversity participants who are interested in the Physical Sciences are invited to create and develop learning projects and learning resources and help organize access to them by developing this portal.

View a list of learning projects for Physical Sciences: learning projects for Physical Sciences.

Featured learning resource

The star HD 209458 has an extrasolar planet orbiting it.

The Observational astronomy learning project has activities for participants that guide them through the same process that an astronomer uses to analyze data. Participants in the Extrasolar planet project explore telescope data to find planets orbiting distant stars. The goal is to create a learning group where participants can compare notes and document the search process and to create an extended learning activity about exoplanets. No prior experience is needed; participants get step by step instructions on how to get started.

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CERN LHC tunnel

The Wikiversity Institute of Particle Physics is a content development project where participants create and organize learning resources related to physics. Resources under development include study guides for: Statistical mechanics, Relativity, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Quantum mechanics I, Classical mechanics, Chaos theory.

Selected research

Participants in the Theory of Everything Project develop research projects involving public databases for particle physics experiments.

Did you know...

The red curve is a cycloid.

The Euler-Lagrange equation of classical mechanics was discovered during attempts to find a curve for which the time taken by a frictionless particle sliding down it under uniform gravity to its lowest point is independent of its initial starting point.

Categories

Browse learning resources in these categories:

• Astronomy - Chemistry - Geology - Hydrology - Marine sciences - Mathematics - Meteorology - Physics - Earth Sciences

Schools

Content development projects exist on pages in "School:" or "Topic:" namespaces.

• School of Biology
• School of Chemistry
• School of Electronics
• School of Engineering
• School of Geology
• School of Hydrology
• School of Meteorology
• School of Physics and Astronomy
• School of Technology

Related portals

Other Wikiversity science-related portals: Asteroid Surveys - Engineering and Technology - Life Sciences - Mathematics - Social Sciences - General Science Portal

Quotations

Telescope Array Component

"This is not your mother's radio telescope." - Jill Tarter speaking about the Allen Telescope Array. See Astronomy Project.

"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it". - Marie Curie

Physical Sciences learning projects

• The Wikiversity page for Acid-base chemistry introduces the fundamentals and links to related resources at Wikibooks and other websites, including videos.
• Amateur Astronomy - Astronomy Project - Backyard Astronomy - BoomCode - Galactic evolution - Introduction to Astronomy - Introduction to the Planets - Observational astronomy - Stellar evolution - The visible sky - Radioactivity - Bonding and chemical structure - Fundamentals of chemistry - Introduction to Geological Engineering - Aquaculture Project - Aviation Weather - Dark matter - Electrons and Electric Fields - Energy - Particle Physics - Radioactivity Basics - Vibrating String

Things you can do

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Physical Sciences news

Geology.
"Geology may work in favor of energy producers" by David Elbert.
Sandstone domes in the remnants of the North American Midcontinent Rift can be used to store energy.