updated 3/31/2008

Physics On-Line Help Pages

 

Throughout this year, I hope to add helpful links where students can go to read and practice specific skills. Often there is so much information on the web, it is hard to find tools that can actually help with learning a topic.

Keep in mind that these sites are not mine nor do they belong to CBNA. I am just trying to help you find quality sources on the web.

Keep checking back to see what's been added. I find new material all the time. 

Mr. G

Find a broken link? email me.

Find a better link ? email me and you might get some bonus points. 

Scientific Notation:

Introduction and Practice:

http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch1/scinot.html

http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-scnot.html

Significant Figures:

Practice counting the number of significant figures:

http://proton.csudh.edu/homework/hwsigfigures.html

Java-based game where you are asked to determine the number of significant figures in numbers and calculations

http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/sigfig/sig.htm

Review of the rules of significant figures and some practice:

http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch1/sigfigs.html

Review the rules of significant figures as well as precision and accuracy.

http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-sigfg.html

Basic significant calculator:

http://ostermiller.org/calc/significant_figures.html

Dimensional Analysis

Scale of the Universe: highly recommended; just cool.

Powers of Ten (Java program): gives a sense of scale from the universe to inside an atom.

http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

Step by step guide to learning D.A. (skip part seven at this time)

http://chemistry.alanearhart.org/Tutorials/DimAnal/index.html

Fancy animated guide to D.A. with many floating numbers and some practice. Click view tutorial for Dimensional Analysis.

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/chemistry/gilbert/tutorials/ch1.htm

Fermi Estimation

Short biography of Enrico

http://www.edinformatics.com/great_thinkers/fermi.htm

Collections of Fermi Problems:

http://www.sewanee.edu/Physics/PHYSICS101/FermiProblems.html

Online Help for Understanding Graphing of Kinematics

The Physics Classroom: My personal favorite, shows all graphs animated. Be sure to click on all of the links on the left

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/kinema/kinemaTOC.html

 

The Physics Classroom Tutorial: Animated Text book. Well done and easy to follow.

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/1DKin/1DKinTOC.html

Kinematics Graphing Flash-cards - a must for review.

http://www.stmary.ws/physics/home/hand_4/regentsReviewSheets/graphingKineticsQuestions.htm

Sparknotes: a text book-like page with diagrams and definitions

http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/sat2/physics/chapter5section3.rhtml

Kinematics solved:

http://www.fearofphysics.com/Probs/One_Dimensional_Motion.html

Projectiles

Tutorial

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/vectors/u3l2a.html

Another Tutorial. Mostly Animation and concepts:

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/vectors/bds.html

Sample problems with solutions:

http://www.fearofphysics.com/Probs/Two_Dimensional_Motion.html

Tutorials with more examples:

http://hypertextbook.com/physics/mechanics/projectiles/

Vectors

Tutorial

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/vectors/u3l1b.html

More examples with active calculations

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vect.html

Practice Problems with answers

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/morehelp/vectaddn/practice.html

More examples with a online calculator

http://www.1728.com/vectutor.htm

Dynamics:

Tutorial:

Newton's Laws

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/newtltoc.html

Inclines

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/vectors/u3l3e.html

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/frict2.html

http://www.dctech.com/physics/help/problems.php?problem=acceleration-plane

Solved Problems:

http://www.fearofphysics.com/Probs/Forces_and_Newton's_Law.html

Friction Animation/Problem

http://www.fearofphysics.com/Friction/friction.html

Friction practice problems with answer

http://newton.burney.ws/physics/problems/friction.php

 

Electrostatics:

Tutorial: Like your text book but with animations

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/estatics/estaticstoc.html

 

Solved Problems:

Coulomb's Law:

http://www.fearofphysics.com/Probs/Coulomb's_Law.html

Electric Fields:

http://www.fearofphysics.com/Probs/Electric_Fields.html

Online simulations from PHet

http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/index.php?cat=Electricity_Magnets_and_Circuits

Recommended:

Charges and Fields

John Travoltage

Electric Field Hockey

Balloons and Static Electricity

Field of dreams

 

Momentum

Glenbrook Tutorials:

Impulse-Momentum:

http://gbs.glenbrook.k12.il.us/academics/gbssci/phys/Class/momentum/u4l1a.html

http://gbs.glenbrook.k12.il.us/academics/gbssci/phys/Class/momentum/u4l1b.html

http://gbs.glenbrook.k12.il.us/academics/gbssci/phys/Class/momentum/u4l1c.html

Conservation:

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/momentum/u4l2a.html

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/momentum/u4l2b.html

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/momentum/u4l2c.html

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/momentum/u4l2d.html

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/momentum/u4l2dd.html

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/momentum/u4l2e.html

more tutorial with solved examples:

http://courses.ncssm.edu/apb78/resources/guides/cons_mom_guide_1.htm

http://www.fearofphysics.com/Probs/Conservation_of_Momentum.html

Center of Mass

HyperPhysics:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

Torque

HyperPhysics Primer:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

 

Levers

http://www.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/physics/torque.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/physics/machines/Levers.shtml

http://physics.uwstout.edu/physapplets/a-city/physengl/lever.htm

Sample problems with answers:

http://www.mrfizzix.com/review/torquerev/

http://library.thinkquest.org/10170/torque/quiz1.htm

 

Rotational Inertia

HyperPhysics Tutorial:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/mi.html

Centripetal Force

Glenbrook Tutorials

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/circles/circtoc.html

Gravity

Tutorial on Gravity:

Sir Isaac Newton: The Universal Law of Gravitation

Escape Velocity Applet:

http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physlet_resources/bu_semester1/c17_escape.html

Dig hole through the Earth, where do you come out? just plain coolness

Dig a hole through the Earth

Satellite Motion & Kepler's Laws

Solved problems with dynamic answers:

http://www.fearofphysics.com/Probs/Gravity.html

Glenbrook Satellite Motion tutorial:

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/circles/u6l4b.html

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/circles/u6l4c.html

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/circles/u6l4a.html

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/circles/u6l4d.html

Another Tutorial:

http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/physics17/chapter4/chapter4.html

Energy

Solved Examples

http://www.fearofphysics.com/Probs/Conservation_of_Energy.html