Portal:Physics and Astronomy

The Physics and Astronomy Portal

Welcome to the Physics and Astronomy portal. This portal is intended to be a user-friendly guide to physics and astronomy content on Wikiversity for pre-school, primary and secondary levels. For a more specialist and advanced portal, please refer to the School of Physics and Astronomy.

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Inactive participants

Erkan Yilmaz up to 26 July 2008‎.
McCormack up to 28 April 2008‎.
Msmithma up to 22 November 2006‎.

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Educational Picture of the Day

Refraction of light in water

This diagram shows how light is refracted to create the illusion of a pencil being bent by dipping in water. Click on the image for a full size version which you can freely re-use and modify. Print it and use it for your lessons, integrate it into your pages on Wikiversity, or use it in other learning resources and websites. Use the links below to find more images like this one.

Refraction images - Light images
Mechanics images - Electromagnetism images - Optics images - Atomic physics images
Images relating to physics in general

This image is a part of the Educational Media Awareness Campaign, raising awareness among educators about the availability and usage of millions of free internet media in education.

Guide to Physics and Astronomy

The following is a dynamic listing of all the pages categorized into this portal. To restructure or extend this list, you will need to edit individual page categories.

► Physics and Astronomy

Related material on Wikiversity

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To-do list for Physics and Astronomy

Do further research on boson particles
Study the effect that neutron stars have on their surrounding systems
Clean up Draft:Callisto and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
Clean up Draft:Ceres and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
Clean up Draft:Charges and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
Clean up Draft:Classical mechanics and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.

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Create a new physics and astronomy page

Enter the title of your new page into the box below and click the button. This will create a new page for you and start off the page with some boilerplate.