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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The Electromagnetic Spectrum

A diagram of the electronmagnetic (EM) spectrum, showing the type, wavelength (with examples), frequency, and the black body emission temperature. 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.

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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.

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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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