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- Category:Physics and Astronomy/Labs
- Wright State University Lake Campus
- Notice: Efforts on this page shall be paused while the commercial book How Things Work (looseleaf) by Bloomfield is evaluated (ISBN 9781119013846 Wiley)
Newtonian Physics
[edit | edit source]Labs in progress
[edit | edit source]- Physics and Astronomy Labs/Motion down an incline
- Air drag drop experiment
- Breaking broomstick demonstration
- Momentum transfer under elastic and inelastic collisions
Classical Physics
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]Quantum mechanics/Photoelectric effect/Quiz
- Quantum mechanics timeline
Quantum mechanics timeline/Quiz
Physics in our lives
[edit | edit source]Industrial Revolution
[edit | edit source]- Wikipedia:Industrial_Revolution
quiz (based on the permalink to the Wikipedia article)
Nuclear power
[edit | edit source]- Wikipedia:Nuclear_powerWikipedia Article
LEDE-HISTORY quiz POWER PLANT - END quiz (index)
Global warming
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]Units under construction
[edit | edit source]- 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)
[edit | edit source]Free online resources
[edit | edit source]- 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