updated 2011-11-28

 

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. 

Inertia:

            The moving Earth:

                        http://www.calacademy.org/products/pendulum/

 

Scientific Notation:

            Introduction and Practice:

                        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

 

Measurement:

            Using the vernier caliper: 

                        http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/class/phscilab/vernier.html

http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/Vernier/Vernier.html

            Applet to practice using the vernier caliper:

http://members.shaw.ca/ron.blond/Vern.APPLET/

http://www.physics.smu.edu/~scalise/apparatus/caliper/tutorial/

            Using the micrometer:

                        http://www.technologystudent.com/equip1/microm1.htm

            Micrometer Applet:

                        http://www.members.shaw.ca/ron.blond/Micrometer.APPLET/

 

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/Old/Tutorials/DimAnal/index.html

 

           

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/Class/1DKin/

           

            Help with solving average speed problems:

                        http://www.batesville.k12.in.us/physics/phynet/mechanics/kinematics/avespeed.html

                        http://www.idealmath.com/algebra/equationone/rateprob36.htm

 

            Kinematic Graphing Animation:

                        http://www2.swgc.mun.ca/physics/physlets/motionc.html

Motion Diagrams:

                       http://www.stmary.ws/highschool/physics/home/notes/kinematics/motionDiagrams/MotionDiagrams.htm

                      

Kinematics Review.

                       http://www.stmary.ws/highschool/physics/home/notes/kinematics/MotionTerms/default.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.physicsclassroom.com/Class/vectors/u3l2a.cfm

 

            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  

 

            Animations:

                        http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Projectile_Motion

 

            Tutorials with more examples:

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

           

 

Vectors

         More examples with active calculations

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

 

         Practice Problems with answers

                    http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/vectors/ 

More examples with a online calculator

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

Bearing Tutorial for Learning Cardinal Directions:

http://www.mathsteacher.com.au/year7/ch08_angles/07_bear/bearing.htm

Statics

            Tutorial:

                        http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/vectors/U3l3c.cfm

 

Dynamics:

            Tutorial:

                        Newton's Laws                    

                                    http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/newtlaws/u2l3a.cfm

                                    http://www.batesville.k12.in.us/physics/Phynet/Mechanics/Newton2/Newton2Intro.html

                                    http://library.thinkquest.org/10796/ch4/ch4.htm

                                    http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm/materials/n2.html

                                    http://www.dctech.com/physics/help/problems.php?problem=motion-newton-second

 

                        Inclines

                                    http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/vectors/u3l3e.cfm

                                    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.physicsclassroom.com/Class/estatics/

           

            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://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/momentum/

            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.physicsclassroom.com/Class/circles/

 

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.physicsclassroom.com/Class/circles/

            Another Tutorial:

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

                        http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html

Energy

            Solved Examples

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

           

           

Electricity:

            Ohm's Law Problems

                        http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=dce11904

            Resistance of a Wire Applet:

                        http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Resistance_in_a_Wire

 

Cosmology

            View of the galaxy from Spitzer Space Telescope:

                        http://bmgoau.nfshost.com/milkyway_spitzer_zoom/spitzer.html

 

Math Help

Solve - Wolfram|Alpha

 

Other books:

Royal Society